Abstract:
The present invention relates to compounds which may be useful as inhibitors of PTPN11 for the treatment or prevention of cancer and other PTP-mediated diseases. Disclosed herein are new compounds and compounds based on pyrazolopyrazines and their application as pharmaceuticals for the treatment of disease.
Abstract:
Described herein is the application of centrifugal spinning to provide a polypropylene (PP) nanofiber environment for cell growth. PP nanofiber mats, formed by centrifugal spinning are treated with one or more antimicrobial agents. The treated PP material was shown to have a 10 reduced rate of rejection and promote cell growth and proliferation.
Abstract:
Disclosed are methods for decellularizing an isolated organ, or a portion thereof, by mechanically agitating the isolated organ with a detergent-containing fluid that removes the cellular membrane surrounding the isolated organ, in the presence of a regulatable source of air to control the removal of detergent from the decellularized organ, while maintaining the extracellular matrix and scaffold. Also disclosed are methods for producing mesoparticle-infused acellular tissues for generation of mammalian organs and tissues suitable, inter alia , for human transplantation
Abstract:
Disclosed herein are methods of treating a subject having an altered NRF2/KEAP1 pathway, and compounds and compositions useful in such treatment. Also disclosed herein are methods of evaluating whether to administer a compound that inhibits glutathione production or a glutaminase inhibitor to a subject.
Abstract:
The invention provides systems and methods for detection, grading, scoring and tele-screening of cancerous lesions. A complete scheme for automated quantitative analysis and assessment of human and animal tissue images of several types of cancers is presented. Various aspects of the invention are directed to the detection, grading, prediction and staging of prostate cancer on serial sections/slides of prostate core images, or biopsy images. Accordingly, the invention includes a variety of sub-systems, which could be used separately or in conjunction to automatically grade cancerous regions. Each system utilizes a different approach with a different feature set. For instance, in the quantitative analysis, textural-based and morphology-based features may be extracted at image- and (or) object-levels from regions of interest. Additionally, the invention provides sub-systems and methods for accurate detection and mapping of disease in whole slide digitized images by extracting new features through integration of one or more of the above-mentioned classification systems. The invention also addresses the modeling, qualitative analysis and assessment of 3-D histopathology images which assist pathologists in visualization, evaluation and diagnosis of diseased tissue. Moreover, the invention includes systems and methods for the development of a tele-screening system in which the proposed computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems. In some embodiments, novel methods for image analysis (including edge detection, color mapping characterization and others) are provided for use prior to feature extraction in the proposed CAD systems.
Abstract:
Described herein is a device and method to derive density measurements for features depicted in computed tomography systems. A radiographic device is used in some embodiments to derive a correlation between measured grey levels in an image produced using a CT system and the attenuation coefficients and/or the CT numbers of the depicted features.
Abstract:
A method of inhibiting, preventing, or reducing damage to non-cancerous cells in a human subject during chemotherapeutic treatment or radiation treatment of cancer cells in the human subject includes administering to the human subject arsenic and/or one or more compounds of arsenic in a therapeutically effective amount prior to treatment with radiation or one or more chemotherapeutic agents.
Abstract:
Compounds according to Formula (I), Formula (II), Formula (III), Formula (V), Formula (VI), or to Formula (VII), and pharmaceutical compositions of compounds that conform to Formula (IV) or (Formula VIII): where R 1 through R 33 are prescribed, selectively inhibit P. falciparum dihydroorotate dehydrogenase. Accordingly, a method for preventing and treating malaria attaches to such compounds, as well as to pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, stereoisomers, tautomers, and prodrugs thereof.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method of diagnosing a Chlamydia infection in a subject, comprising contacting a sample from the subject with a substrate of chlamydial protease/proteasome-like activity factor (CPAF) under conditions whereby cleavage of the substrate can occur; and b) detecting cleavage of the substrate, thereby diagnosing a Chlamydia infection in the subject.
Abstract:
This invention generally relates to use of novel nanomaterials comprised of metals in anti-viral applications. Such nanomaterials, for example, can be produced using a high power, pulsed plasma process, which plasma process, optionally, can be performed on the metal with a precursor (i.e., a gaseous precursor, such as acetylene or methane) when forming the unagglomerated nanomaterials. In embodiments of the invention, the metal is nanosilver. Optionally, the nanomaterials may also comprise carbon, including in the form of carbyne.