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Computer-based Learning to Enhance ADRD Care in Prison: Just Care for Dementia
Project Summary/Abstract U.S. prison systems face sharply increased demands in caring for older people living in prisons. Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias (ADRD) are...
Elucidating the Mechanistic Basis for Phagotrophy in the Protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi (equipment supplement)
Being able to efficiently extract nutrients from one’s environment is an essential activity for any heterotroph ranging from predators to parasites. Among the free-living planktoni...
Blood Pressure Measurement and Hypertension in Pregnancy
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Dr. Natalie A. Bello is a cardiologist whose long-term career goal is to generate and disseminate empiric evidence to reduce the burden of maternal-fetal m...
Computational approaches to characterize heterogeneity and improve risk stratification in complex disease phenotypes
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Recent technological breakthroughs have enabled the generation of clinical, environmental, and multi-omics data at an unprecedented scale, providing a comp...
Understanding Dysregulated Crosstalk Between Regulatory T Cells and Lung Dendritic Cells in the Pathogenesis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a highly prevalent lung disease and is the 4th leading cause of death in the world. COPD results from inhalation of oxidants, such a...
Understanding Dysregulated Crosstalk Between Regulatory T Cells and Lung Dendritic Cells in the Pathogenesis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a highly prevalent lung disease and is the 4th leading cause of death in the world. COPD results from inhalation of oxidants, such a...
Investigating type 1 diabetes pathogenesis using the live pancreas tissue slice platform
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease that results in the destruction of the insulin-producing β cells of the pancreas. The timeline of T1D development and progression is...
Understanding Dysregulated Crosstalk Between Regulatory T Cells and Lung Dendritic Cells in the Pathogenesis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a highly prevalent lung disease and is the 4th leading cause of death in the world. COPD results from inhalation of oxidants, such a...
Investigating type 1 diabetes pathogenesis using the live pancreas tissue slice platform
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease that results in the destruction of the insulin-producing β cells of the pancreas. The timeline of T1D development and progression is...
mHealth Tympanometer: A Digital Innovation to Address Preventable Childhood Hearing Loss in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
ABSTRACT Hearing loss is the second leading impairment worldwide. Childhood hearing loss has lifelong implications and disproportionately affects individuals in low- and middle-inc...
Influences of Environmental Geometry and Aging on Cognitive Mapping Mechanisms
PROJECT SUMMARY | Spatial navigation is fundamental to survival, and entorhinal cortex (EC) function may be fundamental to forming and remembering cognitive maps. The Nobel Prize-w...
Influences of Environmental Geometry and Aging on Cognitive Mapping Mechanisms
PROJECT SUMMARY | Spatial navigation is fundamental to survival, and entorhinal cortex (EC) function may be fundamental to forming and remembering cognitive maps. The Nobel Prize-w...
Targeting Lysosome Function in Lipid Overload Cardiomyopathy
Project Abstract The goals of this project are two-fold: 1) to evaluate the role of lysosomal dysfunction in lipotoxic cardiomyopathy and 2) to provide mentorship and training to a...
mHealth Tympanometer: A Digital Innovation to Address Preventable Childhood Hearing Loss in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
ABSTRACT Hearing loss is the second leading impairment worldwide. Childhood hearing loss has lifelong implications and disproportionately affects individuals in low- and middle-inc...
mHealth Tympanometer: A Digital Innovation to Address Preventable Childhood Hearing Loss in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
ABSTRACT Hearing loss is the second leading impairment worldwide. Childhood hearing loss has lifelong implications and disproportionately affects individuals in low- and middle-inc...
Collaborative Research: Model-guided design of bacterial interspecies interactions and trans-organismic communication in living intercellular circuits
Bacteria in the environment live in multispecies communities with dynamic interactions that can bring about complex collective behaviors. Bacteria use biochemical cell-to-cell comm...
Roles of fibrin(ogen) in conformational activation of hemostatic proteinase precursors
Prothrombin and plasminogen, two central hemostatic zymogens, are activated proteolytically by cleavage of an activation loop. The newly formed N-terminus inserts into a binding po...
Assessing the Feasibility of Economic Approaches to Prevention of Substance Abuse among Adolescents
PROJECT ABSTRACT Adolescent alcohol and drug use (ADU) is a significant public health challenge in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). About 41.6% of adolescents in SSA reported using at lea...
Assessing the Feasibility of Economic Approaches to Prevention of Substance Abuse among Adolescents
PROJECT ABSTRACT Adolescent alcohol and drug use (ADU) is a significant public health challenge in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). About 41.6% of adolescents in SSA reported using at lea...
Roles of fibrin(ogen) in conformational activation of hemostatic proteinase precursors
Prothrombin and plasminogen, two central hemostatic zymogens, are activated proteolytically by cleavage of an activation loop. The newly formed N-terminus inserts into a binding po...