Publications by authors named "A M Galstian"
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- The brightness of objects in bright light often exceeds the range that typical optical sensors can handle.
- The paper proposes locally adaptive optical protection (LAOP) filtering systems to help both technical sensors and human vision cope with extreme brightness.
- Experiments discussed in the paper focus on the key components of LAOP filtering, showing its effectiveness in reducing glare while maintaining clear visibility of all scene elements.
The unique relapsing nature of Plasmodium vivax infection is a major barrier to malaria eradication. Upon infection, dormant liver-stage forms, hypnozoites, linger for weeks to months and then relapse to cause recurrent blood-stage infection. Very little is known about hypnozoite biology; definitive biomarkers are lacking and in vitro platforms that support phenotypic studies are needed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe malaria liver stage is an attractive target for antimalarial development, and preclinical malaria models are essential for testing such candidates. Given ethical concerns and costs associated with non-human primate models, humanized mouse models containing chimeric human livers offer a valuable alternative as small animal models of liver stage human malaria. The best available human liver chimeric mice rely on cellular transplantation into mice with genetically engineered liver injury, but these systems involve a long and variable humanization process, are expensive, and require the use of breeding-challenged mouse strains which are not widely accessible.
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- - The lack of collaboration between academia and the pharmaceutical industry limits new drug discovery, but open source drug initiatives, like sharing physical compounds, could help bridge this gap and accelerate research.
- - The Medicines for Malaria Venture created the Malaria Box, a collection of over 400 compounds tested against malaria, which has been shared with almost 200 research groups, encouraging public data sharing on screening results.
- - Recent findings from the Malaria Box screenings revealed mechanisms of action for many compounds against various life stages of the malaria parasite, and some showed effectiveness against other pathogens and cancer cell lines, providing valuable data for further drug development.
The development of therapies and vaccines for human hepatropic pathogens requires robust model systems that enable the study of host-pathogen interactions. However, in vitro liver models of infection typically use either hepatoma cell lines that exhibit aberrant physiology or primary human hepatocytes in culture conditions in which they rapidly lose their hepatic phenotype. To achieve stable and robust in vitro primary human hepatocyte models, we developed micropatterned cocultures (MPCCs), which consist of primary human hepatocytes organized into 2D islands that are surrounded by supportive fibroblast cells.
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