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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Insulin resistance IR also known as metabolic syndrome is tied to obesity and is associated with numerous modern health problems including the growing problems of type diabetes and cardiovascular disease The growing health economic and social burdens of these conditions calls for the need to develop drug treatments for IR We know from multiple lines of ...

Summary We will create a preclinical quantitative Cancer Imaging and Therapy Platform CITP which will allow one to study cancer biology and optimize pipelines of technologies imaging agents imaging methods targeted nano therapeutics tumor models etc especially for metastatic and invasive cancers Today primary tumor mass es are clinically controlled with surgical drug and radiatio ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Chronic viral hepatitis is clinically silent until development of cirrhosis and hepatic decompensation Decompensated cirrhosis is a precursor to liver failure and is associated with increased risk of severe esophageal bleeding significant cardiovascular events and death The gold standard for diagnosing cirrhosis is liver biopsy though problems with the pro ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Oxygen plays a significant role in wound healing and maintaining elevated tissue oxygenation levels are an important factor in the dermal healing response Specifically non healing diabetic chronic wounds defined as lasting andgt weeks often show devastatingly low oxygen concentrations as low as mmHg oxygen partial pressure In the USA there are more ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Of all the hundreds of types of synthetic middle ear implants that are used in surgery approximately of these are rejected by the body These include total ossicular replacement prostheses TORPs and partial ossicular replacement prostheses PORPs TORPs are used in general when during surgery it is noted that the malleus incus and stapes are all absen ...

PROJECT SUMMARY This proposal aims to develop a new small molecule drug to be advanced into human clinical trials for the treatment of cocaine addiction According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse illicit drug use cost the United States more than $ billion annually in expenses related to crime lost work productivity and health care Approximately million Americans aged or older ...

The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world There are over state and federal prisons housing over million prisoners in the United States The demographics of the prison population are shifting Longer sentences and constrained options for early release compound this trend The older adult segment of prison populations has more than tripled since The health ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This is a resubmission of a Phase I Phase II Fast Track application for the clinical use of MultiStem in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome ARDS ARDS is defined as acute onset hypoxemia bilateral radiographic pulmonary infiltrates and lack of atrial pressure hypertension A novel and exiting possibility is the use of cells as part of the ther ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Congenital diaphragmatic hernia CDH affects in newborns CDH is a disorder in which part of the diaphragm fails to form allowing abdominal organs to migrate into the chest resulting in lung hypoplasia underdevelopment in affected infants Although great strides have been made in the management of this disease significant morbidity and mortality p ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant African American men experience health disparities across a number of preventable chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease strokes obesity and diabetes Physical activity PA is a modifiable risk factor for these conditions The few PA promotion studies that have included African American men have resulted in successful short term behavior change ...