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Unmet Need: Accidental Deaths due to Benzodiazepines, Opiates, and Combined Benzodiazepine/Opiate Overdoses are Epidemic The use of opiates combined with benzodiazepines is ever-increasing. A study evaluating the prescription patterns between 2002 and 2014 reported that the annual number of patients receiving benzodiazepines increased 31 percent...

Published: 4/28/2023 | Inventor(s): John White, Travis Denton

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Category(s): Technologies > Health & Well-being > Addiction, Technologies > Health & Well-being > Global Human and Animal Health, Technologies > Health & Well-being > Pharmaceutical

Novel Compounds in Treating Autophagy-Related Pathologies

Project IDs: D2015-09 and D2016-81 Background: Autophagy is a self-degradation process of cellular organelles that helps defend against metabolic stress, maintain metabolic equilibrium, arbitrate cell fate decisions, and safeguard genomic stability. Deficient autophagy has been associated with over 100 diseases, and experimental enhancement of autophagy...

Published: 5/9/2024 | Inventor(s): Kenneth Hensley, Travis Denton

Keywords(s): ALS, Alzheimer's, Autophagy, Lanthionine Ketimine, Parkinson's

Category(s): Neuroscience

Novel agents for smoking and tobacco cessation

AbstractNicotine is the molecule responsible for the psychopharmacological effects and the addictive properties of tobacco use and cigarette smoking. Researchers at Washington State University have developed an orally-available nicotine derivative that can be prescribed for the cessation of cigarette smoking and tobacco use. It specifically inhibits...

Published: 5/25/2023 | Inventor(s): Philip Lazarus, Travis Denton, Gang Chen, Pramod Srivastava, Alec Wynd, Zuping Xia, Christy Watson

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Category(s): Technologies > Health & Well-being > Biotechnology, Technologies > Health & Well-being > Chemistry, Technologies > Health & Well-being > Pharmaceutical, Technologies > Health & Well-being > Global Human and Animal Health