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Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Faculty Patents

2016

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Methods And Systems For Prognosis And Diagnosis Of Brain Damage, Mark A. Lovell, Bert C. Lynn, Melissa A. Bradley-Whitman Nov 2016

Methods And Systems For Prognosis And Diagnosis Of Brain Damage, Mark A. Lovell, Bert C. Lynn, Melissa A. Bradley-Whitman

Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Faculty Patents

The presently-disclosed subject matter includes methods and devices for diagnosing, prognosing, and treating brain damage in a subject, including brain damage caused by stroke or a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The methods can comprise providing a sample obtained from the subject, exposing the sample to an antibody selective for a visinin-like protein, detecting the presence of a complex that includes the antibody and the visinin-like protein, and diagnosing and/or prognosing the subject as having brain damage if there is the presence of the complex. Embodied methods can also comprise administering a treatment for brain damage if the subject includes the …


Compositions And Methods For Treating Ischemia, Gregory J. Bix Jun 2016

Compositions And Methods For Treating Ischemia, Gregory J. Bix

Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Faculty Patents

The presently-disclosed subject matter provides methods for preventing ischemia in a cell, treating ischemia in a subject, and preventing an infarction in a subject that utilize α5β1 integrin inhibitor. In some instances, α5β1 integrin inhibitor is administered to a subject prior to, during, or after the onset of ischemia to treat the ischemia and/or prevent infarction. In some instances the present methods prevent the occurrence of an infarction. In some instances the present methods restores perfusion to organs and tissues.