Methods for mass producing bacterial alginate, bacterial cultures for producing alginate, and pharmaceutical compositions containing bacterial alginate are contemplated. Inventors: YU; Hongwei D.; (Huntington, WV) ; Qiu; Dongru; (Norman, OK) ; Damron; F. Heath; (Huntington, WV) Assignee: Marshall University Research Corporation Huntington WV Serial No.: 432474 Series Code: 12 Filed: April 29, 2...

The article analyzes the content of Pope’s speeches discussing, reconstructing and interpreting concept two dominant western cultures their mutual relationships to perspective Pope Benedict XVI, who calls them culture radical enlightenment humanism that is open transcendence. identifies fundamental contentious issues including: anthropological issues, human dignity, political anthropology, free...

Conflicts fueled by popular religious mobilization have rekindled the controversy surrounding Samuel Huntington's theory of changing international alignments in the Post-Cold War era. In The Clash of Civilizations, Huntington challenged Fukuyama's "end of history" thesis that liberal democracy had emerged victorious out of Post-war ideological and economic rivalries. Based on a top-down analysi...

56 Waste Alternatives / Waste-to-Energy of the town’s wastes are burned in antiquated incinerators, but these lack pollution controls and are subject to continual breakdowns. Huntington can’t look to neighboring communities for help; most of those communities have similar problems. When looking for a solution to its disposal situation, Huntington N. El’s integrated approach to solid waste manag...

Four patients with Huntington disease were imaged using CT and inversion-recovery magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. In all four patients the caudate nucleus and corpus striatum were well demonstrated and noted to be atrophic. MR is believed to be superior to CT for imaging morphologic changes of Huntington disease.

IMPORTANCE Understanding the natural history of Huntington disease will inform patients and clinicians on the disease course and researchers on the design of clinical trials. OBJECTIVE To determine the longitudinal change in clinical features among individuals with Huntington disease compared with controls. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Prospective, longitudinal cohort study at 44 resea...

Huntington disease is a progressive and fatal genetic disorder with debilitating motor and cognitive defects. Chorea, rigidity, dystonia, and muscle weakness are characteristic motor defects of the disease that are commonly attributed to central neurodegeneration. However, no previous study has examined the membrane properties that control contraction in Huntington disease muscle. We show prima...

introduction: as an inherited neurodegenerative disease, huntington's disease is accompanied with wide neuronal degeneration in neostriatum and neocortex. progress of the disease causes disabling clinical effects on movements, recognition and physiology of the body, and finally results in death. at this stage of knowledge we are, there is no effective therapeutic strategy for diminishing t...