Abstract:
Provided herein, inter alia , are compounds and methods for treating infectious diseases. The compounds provided herein are, inter alia , useful for the treatment of bacterial infections. The compounds provided herein are, inter alia, useful inhibitors of metalloproteins, e.g. UDP-3-O-(R-3-hydroxymyristoyl)-N-acetylglucosamine deacetylase (LpxC).
Abstract:
There are provided, inter alia , compositions including a scintillator nanocrystal linked to a chemical agent moiety through a scintillator-activated photocleavable linker, and methods of use thereof.
Abstract:
There are provided, imer alia, compounds and methods for lowering total AB peptide production by inhibiting the catalytic activity of gamma-secretase. Since all of the major AB peptide variants, including the pathogenic AB42 as known in the art, are ultimately generated by gamma-secretase-mediated proteolysis of APP-C99 (i.e., the beta-secretase-mediated cleavage product of the amyloid protein precursor IAPPI), one approach to therapeutic intervention (e.g., intervention in Alzheimer's Disease, AD) relates to lowering total AB peptide production by inhibiting the catalytic activity of gamma-secretase.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates, inter alia , to compositions and methods for treating viral diseases and cancer. There are disclosed lipophilic antiviral and anticancer acyclic nucleoside phosphonate diesters, preparation thereof, and methods of using the compounds to treat viral diseases and cancer.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to antibodies binding to aquaporin 4 (AQP4) and methods of using such antibodies to treat neuromyelitis optica (NMO) either as a monotherapy or in combination with standard NMO therapies such as immunosuppressives or plasmaphersis.
Abstract:
There are provided, inter alia , methods for decreasing mucus elasticity or decreasing mucus viscosity in a subject in need thereof, the methods including administering to the subject an effective amount of a thiosaccharide mucolytic agent, and compounds and pharmaceutical compositions useful for the methods.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to methods of inhibiting p97 and compounds and compositions useful in such methods. Diseases and conditions the can be treated with the compounds and compositions of the invention include, but are not limited to, cancer and neurodegenerative disorders susceptible to treatment by inhibition of p97.
Abstract:
Methods for determining a genetic identity of a cell, tissue, organ, or organism, based on type, position, and size of every occurrence of at least one repetitive element in the genome of the cell, tissue, organ, or organism. The methods can include using a computer to generate a graphical representation of the genetic identity of the cell, tissue, organ, or organism, and comparing genetic identity at different times/spaces. Also described herein is a computer implemented Universal Genome Information System, which serves as a genome-RE/TRE information management and analysis platform.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device, such as a GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) device, including etching a thermal via into a back-side of a semiconductor substrate and depositing a diamond nucleation seed layer across the back-side of the substrate. The method further includes coating the diamond nucleation with a mask layer and removing mask material outside of the thermal via on the planar portions of the back-side of the substrate. The method includes removing portions of the diamond nucleation layer on the planar portions and then removing the remaining portion of the mask material in the thermal via. The method then includes depositing a bulk diamond layer within the thermal via on the remaining portion of the diamond nucleation layer so that diamond only grows in the thermal via and not on the planar portions of the substrate.
Abstract:
Controlling exogenous polyamines may be used, in some aspects, as an adjunctive strategy to chemoprevention with polyamine inhibitory agents, for example, anti-carcinoma combination therapies comprising ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) inhibitor and a spermidine/spermine N 1 -acetyltransferase expression agonist, optionally based on a patient's ODC1 promoter genotype. Assessing a tissue polyamine level or tissue polyamine flux may be used in some aspects, for predicting the efficacy of an anti-carcinoma combination therapy comprising, for example, an ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) inhibitor and an agent that modulates the polyamine pathway to reduce overall cellular polyamine content.