Drug resistant pathogens continue to emerge as the rate of the development of new antimicrobials to combat them continues to decline. Alarmingly, slow-growing bacteria associated with dangerous and pr...
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PTX, DTX, rapamycin and selumetinib are potent chemotherapeutic agents useful in the treatment of a variety of cancers. Due to their limited water solubility, PTX and DTX are commonly formulated for p...
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Friedreich’s Ataxia (FRDA) is a neurodegenerative disorder without treatments to halt or reverse disease progression, affecting roughly 9,000 Americans. FRDA is caused by triplet expansion in the fi...
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Pompe disease is a rare autosomal recessive genetic disease (mutations from both parent carriers have to be inherited by the offspring to see symptoms) that typically affects children during developme...
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Cancer immunotherapy – a therapy that stimulates and employs the body’s own immune system – is one of the most promising new approaches for treating cancer. Despite its tremendous potential, it ...
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Voice impairment (dysphonia) affects an estimated 20 million people in the U.S., resulting in reduced quality of life and direct health care costs exceeding $11 billion per year. Between 60 and 80 per...
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Staphylococcus epidermidis is an important Gram-negative bacterial pathogen in hospital-acquired infections, and the most common cause of infections on indwelling medical devices. The costs related to...
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Currently there is only one well-studied and established tumor-targeting radioactive agent in pediatric oncology (131I-MIBG), which only targets neuroblastoma and other rare neuroendocrine tumors. It ...
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Polypeptides, such as enzymes, antibodies, hormones and cytokines, are useful therapeutic agents. However, routes for systemically introducing such polypeptides to a subject are limited. Oral administ...
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The epigenetic modifier SIRT6 is of the sirtuin class of proteins. In transgenic mice, increased SIRT6 expression lowers LDL and triglyceride levels, improves glucose tolerance and increases mitochond...
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Leading UW–Madison oncologists previously showed that the matrix receptor syndecan-1 (Sdc1/CD138) – a matrix receptor highly expressed in multiple myeloma – captures and activates multiple cell ...
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Indole is one of the most abundant heterocycles in pharmaceuticals and bioactive natural products, such as indometacin, a non-steroid anti-inflammatory drug, and vincristine, a natural product used to...
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Hyperlipidemia is a condition strongly associated with obesity and is an independent risk factor for the development of coronary heart disease. To help combat hyperlipidemia, the pharmaceutical indust...
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Currently, delivering drugs directly into the brain requires invasive surgery. This is because a tight cellular layer called the blood-brain barrier (BBB) not only prevents harmful substances from ent...
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Indole is one of the most abundant heterocycles in pharmaceuticals and bioactive natural products, such as indometacin, a non-steroid anti-inflammatory drug, and vincristine, a natural product used to...
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Prostate cancer is a significant health risk for men over the age of 50 and currently is a pervasive health threat with as many as 200,000 new cases diagnosed each year in the US alone. At present, t...
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The androgen receptor (AR) is a steroid hormone receptor that plays a crucial role in the development of normal prostate tissue, as well as in the progression of prostate cancer. Patients with metasta...
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease affecting 2.5 million people worldwide. The disease is difficult to manage and there is no cure. The underlying mechanism of MS pro...
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Friedreich’s ataxia (also referred to as FA or FRDA) is a rare but fatal autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disease. With an estimated incidence of 1 in every 40,000 people, it causes progressive...
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The epidemiology of influenza Type B viruses differs from Type A; influenza B viruses primarily circulate in humans and do not cause pandemics. However, in some seasons the impact of influenza B infec...
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Secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA) plays a critical role in immunity. The protein is found in breast milk and secreted in the gastrointestinal system during development and adulthood. Research suggests...
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Collagen is the most abundant protein in vertebrates, providing support to virtually every tissue including skin, bone and blood vessel. It is of critical importance in wound healing.Given its signifi...
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Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is an escalating problem, especially in hospital settings. The Centers for Disease Control recently identified Clostridium difficile as posing an “urgent” healt...
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The influenza virus is a highly contagious respiratory pathogen that causes annual epidemics and occasional pandemics. Although many studies have looked at how a host responds to infection with the vi...
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Podophyllotoxin is a natural product derived from a plant. Although two clinically useful glycosylated analogs have been developed for treating cancer, podophyllotoxin is difficult to synthesize, hind...
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