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Abstract The Specific Aim of this Phase I STTR proposal is to test the feasibility of treating non alcohol steatohepatitis NASH by increasing mitochondrial metabolism which is the main pathway for lipid catabolism in the liver NASH is a stage of non alcohol fatty liver disease NAFLD that has progressed to a pathological state NASH can lead to cirrhosis leading to liver failure or hepatocel ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Hearing loss innate and acquired occurs in over million Americans and globally in over million people To compensate many with hearing impairment rely on the combination of audio information and visual cues from the face cheeks nose and eyes to facilitate speech understanding In healthcare settings this important visual communication is severely hindered by the ubi ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantFast TrackInsulin remains the primaryand often the onlytreatment for typediabetes mellitusT DHowever it is associated with chronic iatrogenic hyperinsulinemiasecondary hyperlipidemiahigher incidence and severity of cardiovascular complicationsand life threatening hypoglycemia eventsA higher mortalityvsdue to cardiovascular complications were reported in insulin trea ...

Abstract Applications of customizable nucleases such as CRISPR clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats Cas CRISPR associated protein have enabled efficient and precise gene correction in vitro and hold promises for eventually achieving in vivo gene correction therapy However to apply CRISPR Cas in therapeutic settings several major challenges remain to be addressed ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy CIPN is a debilitating complication that can arise from use of a number of chemotherapeutics and which limits both the dose and duration of cancer treatments with these agents Up to of cancer patients treated with chemotherapy describe some form of CIPN with sensory neuropathy being dominant Symptoms vary from tingling and numbne ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Myocardial regenerative therapy is poised to revolutionize the way heart failure is treated but further improvements and enhanced products are needed to make this therapy truly safe and efficacious Our company CardioCreate Inc has pioneered the use of genetic engineering to enhance the regenerative potential of human Cardiac Progenitor Cells CPCs intended for autologous the ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT Stroke injury is a process that occurs over a long duration with pathologic changes that result in long term neurologic dysfunction For stroke there exists an important need for a strategy that can provide safe and efficacious stabilization to the hypoperfused brain and initialize long lasting endogenous neuroprotection for prevention of long term neurologic dysfunction ...

Summary Nervous systems process information by integrating the electrical activity of neurons in complex networks The alterations in the flow of electrical activity through neuronal networks of the brain play a causal role in the pathogenesis and or the appearance of symptoms of neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases A fundamental goal of BRAIN Initiative is therefore to elucidate how the ...

Project Summary Abstract In the past decade laboratories around the world have produced tens of thousands of mutant transgenic and wild type zebrafish lines for a wide range of genetic and biomedical research Maintaining all of these valuable genotypes is expensive risky and beyond the capacity of even the largest stock centers Cryopreservation of zebrafish sperm eggs and embryos is vital ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Early cancer detection and diagnosis are critical for patient survival and treatment successFor the imaging of breast and other solid tumorsthe diagnostic power of advanced imaging techniques such as SPECT could benefit tremendously from improved contrast agents that rapidly and selectively accumulate in tumor lesions and produce high tumor to background signal ratiosWe are develop ...