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The detection of mutations in fecal DNA represents a promising, non-invasive approach for detecting colorectal cancers in average risk populations. One of the first practical applications of this technology involves the examination of microsatellite markers to sporadic cancers with mismatch repair deficiencies. As such cancers nearly always occur in the proximal colon, this test is useful as an adjunct to sigmoidoscopy, which detects only distal colorectal lesions.
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The present invention relates to the use of carbon monoxide (CO) as a biomarker and therapeutic agent of heart, lung, liver, spleen, brain, skin and kidney diseases and other conditions and disease states including, for example, asthma, emphysema, bronchitis, adult respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis, cystic fibrosis, pneumonia, interstitial lung diseases, idiopathic pulmonary diseases, other lung diseases including primary pulmonary hypertension, secondary pulmonary hypertension, cancers, including lung, larynx and throat cancer, arthritis, wound healing, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, peripheral vascular disease and pulmonary vascular thrombotic diseases such as pulmonary embolism. CO may be used to provide anti-inflammatory relief in patients suffering from oxidative stress and other conditions especially including sepsis and septic shock. In addition, carbon monoxide may be used as a biomarker or therapeutic agent for reducing respiratory distress in lung transplant patients and to reduce or inhibit oxidative stress and inflammation in transplant patients.
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The present invention makes available assays and reagents inhibiting paracrine and/or autocrine signals produced by a hedgehog protein or aberrant activation of a hedgehog signal transduction pathway, e.g., which involve the use of a steroidal alkaloid or other small molecule.
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A time-of-flight mass spectrometer includes a sample holder (116-118) for a sample and an ionizer (135-139) for ionizing the sample to form ions. A first element (122) is spaced downstream from the sample holder, a second element (123) is spaced downstream from the first element, and a drift region (104) is downstream of the second element. An electric field is established between the sample holder and the first element at a time subsequent to ionizing the sample in order to extract the ions. A time-dependent and mass-correlated electric field is established between at least one of: (a) the first element and the second element, and (b) the sample holder and the first element. In turn, a detector (132) detects the ions.
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A method of trans-esophageal magnetic resonance analysis of a patient, such as an animal or human, includes providing a non-loop antenna (84), such as a coil or solenoid coil. The non-loop antenna is received within a Levin-type gastric tube (62). The gastric tube which receives the non-loop antenna is inserted in the esophagus of the patient. A tuning, matching and de-coupling circuit (12) is electrically connected to a magnetic resonance imaging scanner (18). The magnetic resonance imaging scanner (18) is employed to provide magnetic resonance imaging or spectroscopic analysis of an intra-Thoracic structure, such as the aorta, of the patient.
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The accumulation of homoplasmic somatic mutations has been observed in the mitochondrial DNA of certain tumor cells. The presence or a recurrence of a tumor can be detected by determining the presence of single basepair mutations in the mitochondrial genome from a cell sample of a patient.
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This invention describes a method to kill cancer cells by acute elevation of cellular malonyl Coenzyme A (Malonyl CoA) which leads to apoptosis. Elevation of malonyl CoA may be induced by inhibition of fatty acid synthase (FAS), or by other manipulation of fatty acid metabolism tht does not involve inhibition of FAS. Alternatively, growth of tumor cells may be induced by a combination of effects including FAS inhibition in conjunction with other interventions which affect fatty acid metabolism, including inhibition of camitine palmitoyltransferase-1 (CPT-1). Any combination of drugs which produces an analogous physiologic effect(s) may be expected to lead to the same effect on susceptible tumor cells. For example, combination therapy with drug(s) that inhibit the fatty acid synthesis by inhibiting acetyl CoA carboxylase (the first enzyme in the fatty acid synthesis pathway) and drug(s) that inhibit CPT-1 may be expected to induce apoptosis in tumor cells. Therefore, this invention encompasses any method to systemically modify fatty acid metabolism in cancer cells including but not limited to direct inhibition of CPT-1 through small molecule inhibitors such as etomoxir, as well as inhibition of CPT-1 incidental to increasing the level of malonyl CoA in cancer cells.
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A strategy for drug-screening is based on cells that are isogenic except for a gene of interest. Each cell can be tranfected with a vector that encodes a different fluorescent protein that can be differentially detected to monitor cell growth. Co-culture of both cells allows facile screening for compounds with selective toxicity towards a gene of interest. The drug screening is broadly applicable for mining therapeutic agents targeted to specific genetic alterations responsible for cancer development.
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The invention describes a system, method, and means for an MRI guidewire that can be visible on an MRI; can act as an antenna, and receive MRI signals from surrounding subject matter; and can allow the use of multiple interventional tools without removal of the guide wire from a subject. The antenna (106) extends beyond probe shaft (105) at distal end (109). The probe shaft (105) has a core (101), first electric (102), shield (103), and second dielectric (104).