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Noninvasive Seizure Screening in Preclinical Models of Epilepsy There is an urgent need for research into treatment options for epilepsy and other seizure disordersAnimal models are increasingly used to understand disease mechanisms and to screen promising therapeutic approachesAnimal epilepsy model use typically requires expensive and labor intensive experimentationwith invasive EEG measurements ...

ABSTRACT The recent shift in Alzheimer s diseaseADclinical research from clinical diagnosis toward the goal of developing neuroprotective therapies has highlighted the need for a robust and rapidly administered cognitive assessment tool capable of identifying individuals in the earliest stages of cognitive decline and measuring subtle changes in cognitive motor performance over timeIn this context ...

Project Summary Abstract Bacterial infections such as those of prosthetic jointsbonesosteomyelitisand heart valvesinfective endocarditisare difficult to difficult to diagnose and treatand are a major cause of mortalitymorbidity and health care costsThe long term goal of our program is thus to develop positron emission tomographyPETradiotracers that can be used for non invasive PET imaging to detec ...

Traumatic injuries account for 30% of all life years lost in the US and is the leading cause of death for people under 46 years of age. Uncontrolled bleeding or hemorrhage constitute 30-40% of trauma related deaths and are considered to be a major cause o

Project Summary Abstract Children with speech sound disorder show diminished accuracy and intelligibility in spoken communication and may thus be perceived as less capable or intelligent than peerseven when they are of average or above average intellectual abilityWhile most speech errors resolve by the late school age yearsup toof individuals will continue to exhibit residual speech errorsRSEthrou ...

Herpes simplex virusesandHSVHSVcause a wide range of serious diseasesincluding oral genital lesionscorneal blindness and eczema herpeticumHSVand HSVare both transmitted sexually and can infect babies during birthTherapy for HSV relies primarily on nucleoside analogs such as acyclovirACVwhich are insufficiently effectiveand resistant viruses are becoming common among immunosuppressed personsTherefo ...

PROJECT SUMMARYABSTRACT To datethe standard method to access a mouse tail vein is manual injectionbut its yield rate is poor in generalThis leads to multiple needle insertions associated with tissue damage and painBesidesfailure in tail vein injection leads to data lossand thereby more animals will be required to compensate itFinallythe dose variation induced by unreliable injection increases erro ...

AbstractLEXEO TherapeuticsLLCis an early stage biotechnology company focused on using in vivo gene therapy technologies to treat disorders of unmet medical needLEXEO is developing an in vivo gene therapy strategy as a preventative therapy to protect individuals with aldehyde dehydrogenaseALDHdeficiency from the high risk for esophageal cancerAs the next step in the development paththe goal of this ...

PROJECT SUMMARY The proposed Phase I STTR project is a partnership between a biotechnology company KXTbioIncand the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to develop an innovative high throughput screening service for identifying new drug candidates that act via G protein coupled receptorsGPCRsThis large protein superfamily has been the most successful source of therapeutic targetsaccounting ...

Project SummaryChildhood TB is estimated to contributeof the disease burden in high burden settingswith approximately a million cases per year inworldwideExisting gold standard diagnostic culture tools fail to confirm TB in most childrenwho typically have low bacterial counts and cannot produce sputumMore sensitive and child friendly diagnostic tools are urgently needed to diagnose TB in childrenC ...