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https://www.vicon.com/downloads/software/bodybuilder

Software package for modeling body biomechanics for use with the Vicon motion capture system. Bodybuilder allows users to, among other things, edit and modify trajectories and interpolate broken trajectories, model body segments and joints, create kinematic and kinetic models, and output results to text or file.

Proper citation: Bodybuilder (RRID:SCR_015002) Copy   

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http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00143949

Randomized, multicenter, double-blind study to determine if renin angiotensin medications, either losartan (angiotensin II blocker) or enalapril (converting enzyme inhibitor), can prevent or delay the onset of diabetic kidney disease in patients with type 1 diabetic patients who do not have hypertension, diabetic nephropathy, or predictive levels of microalbuminuria. Two hundred eight five patients ages 16-61 with 2-20 yrs of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and no renal functional abnormalities were randomized into a parallel, double-blind, placebo-controlled study involving 3 groups (95 patients/group). Each group received an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEI) (enalapril), or an angiotensin II receptor blocker (Losartan), or placebo. All patients had their usual Diabetes Mellitus (DM) management. Baseline studies included measures of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), urinary albumin excretion rate (UAE), blood pressure (BP), and a percutaneous renal biopsy. Patients were followed by quarterly measures of BP, HbA1C, UAE, and drug compliance. There were annual measures of GFR and a repeat renal biopsy after 5 yrs in the study. The main endpoint is kidney structural changes over time, especially mesangial fractional volume (v(Mes/glom)). Secondary endpoints will be other DN structural measures and measures of kidney function (UAE, GFR). These studies will determine whether rennin angiotensin system blockage in the early stages of DN can prevent the early kidney structural changes in this important disorder. Ancillary studies will evaluate the effects of treatment group on the development and progression of diabetic retinopathy and will develop predictors of study participants'''' compliance. Baseline, 2.5 and 5 year retinal fundus photographs in the RASS patients were obtained.

Proper citation: Renin Angiotensin System Study (RRID:SCR_013385) Copy   

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http://born.nii.ac.jp/

Service that retrieves disease relevant information from Twitter tweets and shows current hotspots of disease outbreaks on an interactive map. It is an ontology-driven system for detecting global health events

Proper citation: BioCaster (RRID:SCR_011869) Copy   

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http://www.bsc.gwu.edu/dpp/protocol.htmlvdoc

Observational clinical trial studying the long term effect of diet and exercise and the diabetes medication, metformin, on the delay of type 2 diabetes in participants of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP). The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) was a multi-center trial examining the ability of an intensive lifestyle or metformin to prevent or delay the development of diabetes in a high risk population due to the presence of impaired glucose tolerance (IGT). The DPP has ended early demonstrating that lifestyle reduced diabetes onset by 58% and metformin reduced diabetes onset by 31%. The DPPOS is designed to take advantage of the scientifically and clinically valuable DPP participants. This group of participants is nearly 50% minority and represents the largest IGT population ever studied. Clinically important research questions remain that focus on 1)durability of the prior DPP intervention, 2) determination of the clinical course of precisely known new onset diabetes, in particular regarding CVD, CVD risk factors and atherosclerosis and microvascular disease, 3)close examination of these topics in men vs women and in minority populations. More than 87% of the original surviving DPP cohort has joined DPPOS as of December, 2007 and, to date, after 5 years of DPPOS and 10 years of combined DPP/DPPOS, 93% of the DPPOS cohort continue to attend annual follow-up visits. Interim analyses performed after 5 years of DPPOS have demonstrated a durable effect of diabetes prevention associated with the lifestyle and metformin interventions with 34 and 19% reductions in diabetes incidence, respectively, compared with the placebo group. Interim analyses also reveal significant reductions from baseline in CVD risk factors in the lifestyle intervention group, but with decreased utilization of glucose-lowering and lipid-lowering medications. Analyses of the participants in the placebo group who have developed diabetes during DPP/DPPOS, compared with those who have remained non-diabetic, reveal an increased frequency of retinopathy and microalbuminuria. The current, updated protocol describes the DPPOS including the revisions incorporated to complete the second five-years of the study. DPPOS participants have blood samples stored at the time of each annual visit. Specimens are stored at the study CBL until after the primary study outcomes are reported. DNA samples were previously collected and are stored at the NIDDKsample repository for DPP participants.

Proper citation: Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study (RRID:SCR_001502) Copy   

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https://www.lookaheadtrial.org

16-center, randomized clinical trial investigating the long-term health consequences of an intensive lifestyle intervention program designed to achieve and maintain weight loss by decreased caloric intake and increased physical activity in overweight volunteers with type 2 diabetes. The Look AHEAD cohort comprises approximately 5,000 overweight or obese participants with type 2 diabetes, aged 45-76. Participants were randomized to one of two interventions: an intensive lifestyle intervention designed to produce and sustain weight loss over the long term or a diabetes support and education arm. Participants will be followed for a total of 11 to 13.5 years from randomization. The primary hypothesis is that the incidence rate of the first post-randomization occurrence of a composite outcome, which includes * cardiovascular death (including fatal myocardial infarction and stroke), * non-fatal myocardial infarction, * hospitalized angina, and * non-fatal stroke, over a planned follow-up period of up to 13.5 years will be reduced among participants assigned to the Lifestyle Intervention compared to those assigned to the control condition, Diabetes Support and Education. Look AHEAD will also test for reductions in the incidence of three secondary composite outcomes and examine the effect of the intervention on cardiovascular disease risk factors, diabetes control and complications, general health, and quality of life, and psychological outcomes. The cost and cost-effectiveness of the Lifestyle Intervention relative to Diabetes Support and Education will be assessed. The Look AHEAD intensive lifestyle intervention ended September, 2012. Participants continue to be followed to determine the long-term effects of the intervention on health outcomes.

Proper citation: Look AHEAD (RRID:SCR_001490) Copy   

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https://repository.niddk.nih.gov/study/44

Randomized controlled clinical trial to understand how increasing hemodialysis to six times a week from the standard of three times a week may result in improved heart health. Subjects were recruited from dialysis units associated with designated Clinical Centers in the U.S. and Canada and followed for 1 year. Subjects will be randomized to either conventional hemodialyis Daily HD delivered for at least 2.5 hours (typically 3 to 4 hours), 3 days per week, or to more frequent hemodialysis delivered for 1.5 - 2.75 hours, 6 days per week. The study has two co-primary outcomes: 1) a composite of mortality with the change over 12 months in left ventricular mass by magnetic resonance imaging, and 2) a composite of mortality with the change over 12 months in the SF-36 RAND physical health composite (PHC) quality of life scale. In addition, main secondary outcomes have been designated for each of seven outcome domains: 1) cardiovascular structure and function (change in LV mass), 2) health-related quality of life/physical function (change in the PHC), 3) depression/burden of illness (change in Beck Depression Inventory), 4) nutrition (change in serum albumin), 5) cognitive function (change in the Trail Making Test B), 6) mineral metabolism (change in average predialysis serum phosphorus), and 7) clinical events (rate of non-access hospitalization or death). Hypertension and anemia are also main outcome domains, but without designation of single first priority outcomes.

Proper citation: Frequent Hemodialysis Network Daily Trial (RRID:SCR_001527) Copy   

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https://repository.niddk.nih.gov/study/47

Study designed to test the hypothesis that African-Americans respond less well to combination pegylated interferon and ribavirin therapy than Caucasian-Americans who have chronic hepatitis C genotype 1 and who were not previously treated with either interferon or ribavirin. Reasons for differences in response, regardless of race, will be studied. All patients were treated with combination therapy of pegylated interferon and ribavirin for 48 weeks, and were followed for an additional 48 week safter cessation of therapy. 400 patients, half African-American and half Caucasian American, from 8 clinical centers with the goals of establishing rates of response to optimal current therapy in the two ethnic groups, identify factors predictive of response, establish patterns of viral kinetics in response to antiviral therapy, and test hypotheses concerning viral and host factors determining response to therapy. Four ancillary studies designed to elucidate biological and virological basis for non-response are also included in Virahep-C. Additionally, the study has central facilitates for pathology, the virological testing laboratory and a serum/tissue repository.

Proper citation: Viral Resistance to Antiviral Therapy of Chronic Hepatitis C (RRID:SCR_001553) Copy   

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https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00392678?term=SALSALATE&viewType=Table&rank=8

Nationwide, randomized, double blind, multi-center research study to determine whether the drug salsalate, a member of the commonly used Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug (NSAID) class, is effective in lowering sugars in patients with type 2 diabetes. The study is conducted in two stages. The primary objective of the first stage is to select a dose of salsalate that is both well-tolerated and demonstrates a trend toward improvement in glycemic control. The primary objective of Stage 2 of the study is to evaluate the effects of salsalate on blood sugar control in diabetes; the tolerability of salsalate use in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D); and the effects of salsalate on measures of inflammation, the metabolic syndrome, and cardiac risk.

Proper citation: TINSAL-T2D (RRID:SCR_001546) Copy   

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https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00580749

Randomized multi-center clinical trial designed to test whether duodenojejunal (DJ) feeding is more effective than nasogastric (NG) feeding in providing enteral nutrition to patients with severe acute pancreatitis. SNAP will enroll participants with severe acute pancreatitis admitted to the intensive care unit at eight clinical centers. Upon enrollment, participants are assigned to NG or DJ feeding and managed for up to 28 days or until weaned on to solid food. Follow-up continues until participants are discharged from the hospital or for a maximum of 60 days. Outcomes relate to feeding tolerance and failure, nutritional status, risk for life-threatening pancreatic/systemic complications, and hospital mortality.

Proper citation: Study of Nutrition in Acute Pancreatitis (RRID:SCR_001544) Copy   

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http://archives.niddk.nih.gov/patient/crisp/rp-crisp.aspx

A five-year prospective cohort study following 240 patients who have autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease (PKD) to determine whether changes in anatomic characteristics of their kidneys as measured by magnetic resonance imaging will be useful in providing surrogate measures for disease progression. CRISP's overall goal is to develop methods that would facilitate shortening the observation period necessary to determine efficacy of treatment interventions in PKD patients. Specific goals of this study are to: * Quantify cyst growth and ascertain severity of renal parenchymal involvement by sequential measurement of total kidney volume and the ratio of intact parenchyma to renal parenchyma occupied by cysts over time * Establish useful clinical correlations of imaging data with other markers of disease progression * Identify and test other potential markers or indices of disease progression, for example, assessment of loss of heterozygosity of renal cells shed in the urine, or other markers, in cohorts of patients with PKD * Gain information about the cost-effectiveness, patient acceptability, and advantages and disadvantages of different imaging techniques used serially in patients with PKD. Some experience has been gained in establishing that repeat imaging of the same PKD patient, using these techniques, yields reproducible estimates of kidney size and the proportion of renal parenchyma occupied by cysts. MRI may also have the advantage of permitting simultaneous estimation of GFR. Ultrasound has the advantage of being more cost-effective and perhaps more acceptable to patients for repetitive studies, but the measurements may be less accurate and reproducible. Nonetheless, there is very limited experience in applying these techniques to follow progression of the renal disease. Development of improved, reproducible imaging methods that assess cyst growth and provide markers of disease progression could markedly improve the feasibility of clinical trials. Participating clinical centers are Emory University, the Mayo Clinic, University of Kansas, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The data coordinating and imaging analysis center is at Washington University. (PI has since moved to University of Pittsburgh) The study found that kidney enlargement resulting from the expansion of cysts is continuous, quantifiable, and associated with the decline of renal function. Cystic expansion occurs at a consistent rate per individual, although it is heterogeneous in the population, and that larger kidneys are associated with more rapid decrease in renal function. These anatomic characteristics of patient kidneys may provide useful surrogate measures for disease progression, and hence enhance the development of targeted therapies for autosomal dominant PKD. CRISP III is a five-year prospective cohort study to follow ~170 remaining autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) patients who were part of the original CRISP cohort study. CRISP III will verify and extend the preliminary observations of CRISP to determine the extent to which quantitative (kidney volume and blood flow, and hepatic and kidney cyst volume) or qualitative (cyst distribution and character) structural parameters predict renal insufficiency and develop and test new metrics to quantify and monitor disease progression. Urine metabolites and the genome will be correlated with the progression of disease to look for new, predictive disease biomarkers. This information from CRISP III will help determine if the kidney enlargement, blood flow, cyst distribution, or urine metabolites can function as an informative surrogate measure for disease progression.

Proper citation: Consortium for Radiologic Imaging Studies of Polycystic Kidney Disease (RRID:SCR_000690) Copy   

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http://anya.igsb.anl.gov/Geneways/GeneWays.html

System for automatically extracting, analzying, visualizing and integrating molecular pathway data from the research literature. System focuses on interactions between molecular substances and actions, providing a graphical consensus view on the collected information. GeneWays is designed as open platform, allowing researchers to query, review and critique integrated information.

Proper citation: GeneWays (RRID:SCR_000572) Copy   

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https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00021814

Multi-center double-masked, placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial designed to evaluate the long-term efficacy of finasteride, or doxazosin, or the combination of both, in delaying or preventing the clinical progression of symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). MTOPS was the largest and longest study to test whether drug therapy can prevent or delay the noncancerous growth of the prostate. A unique feature of MTOPS that has not been done in prior studies of pharmacotherapy of BPH is the biopsy substudy. A total of 1,082 volunteers from the 2,931 participants randomized during the full-scale phase are currently participating in this substudy. Biopsies of the prostate will be obtained on these volunteers at predetermined times during the course of the trial to evaluate the status of the prostate at key event times. The purpose of the substudy was to provide additional information regarding the histopathobiology of BPH and to test existing biomarkers for their prognostic ability regarding response to drug therapy.

Proper citation: Medical Therapy of Prostatic Symptoms (RRID:SCR_001556) Copy   

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http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00100659

Multi-center, randomized controlled trial that studied peginterferon therapy, with or without ribavirin, in children with chronic hepatitis C. Approximately 120 children were randomly assigned to receive peginterferon alfa-2a alone or peginterferon with ribavirin for 48 weeks. Samples of blood, genomic DNA, and liver tissue are stored in the NIDDKrepositories. A long-term follow up study of the clinical trial participants is underway.

Proper citation: Peginterferon and Ribavirin for Pediatric Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C (RRID:SCR_006787) Copy   

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http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00688662

A prospective, double-blind, randomized, sham-controlled, multi-center clinical trial that enrolls subjects who have received a prior cholecystectomy and are diagnosed with the clinical syndrome of Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction III (SOD III) as defined by the Rome III criteria. The goal of the study is to asses the value of endoscopic sphincterotomy as a treatment for adult subjects categorized as SOD III suffering from pain after cholecystectomy and to define the role of manometry in treating these patients.

Proper citation: Evaluating Predictors and Interventions in Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction (RRID:SCR_006897) Copy   

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http://archives.niddk.nih.gov/patient/camus/camus.aspx

Randomized, multicenter, double blind, placebo controlled clinical trial of phytotherapy for benign prostate symptoms among men. The CAMUS trial will test Saw palmetto in about 369 men. Men who decide to be part of the CAMUS trial will be given one out of two possible treatments at random. One out of every two men would get an inactive placebo treatment. One out of every two men would get Saw palmetto pills. This kind of scientific study is the best way to find out if the plant extracts really work to prevent men with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) from getting worse. During the study, men will not know which of the two treatments they are assigned to. They will be followed very closely by a study team every 12 weeks to see how they are doing. Men in the CAMUS trial will be studied over 72 weeks. Ten clinical centers will participate in the trial. They are located at: Columbia University, NY, NY; New York University, NY, NY; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; University of Colorado, Denver, CO; Washington University, St. Louis, MO; Yale University, New Haven, CT; Queens University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

Proper citation: Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Urological Symptoms (RRID:SCR_007131) Copy   

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http://archives.niddk.nih.gov/patient/fsgs/fsgs.aspx

Network of collaborative research centers that tested the effects of treatment with cyclosporine to treatment with mycophenalate mofetil combined with oral pulse dexamethasone in children and young adults with focal segemental glomerulosclerosis. Efficacy was assessed in terms of induction of remission of proteinuria after 52 weeks of treatment and sustained remission after 26 weeks off treatment. The clinical sites were State University of New York, Stony Brook; Montefiore Medical Center; Seattle Children''''s Medical Center; Medical City Dallas Hospital; and the University of North Carolina. The Cleveland Clinic is the data-coordinating center, and NephCure will fund ancillary studies.

Proper citation: Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis in Children and Young Adults Interventional Study (RRID:SCR_007130) Copy   

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http://archives.niddk.nih.gov/patient/mist/mist.aspx

Randomized clinical trial to determine the efficacy and safety of three treatments for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH): transurethral needle ablation (TUNA), transurethral microwave therapy (TUMT), and medical therapy with alfuzosin and finasteride. The study has been terminated. (Inability to recruit required sample size.)

Proper citation: Minimally Invasive Surgical Therapies Treatment Consortium for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (RRID:SCR_007126) Copy   

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https://github.com/qqpigass/FREEPII

Software application encompassing autonomous feature extraction and feature representation enhancement for PPIs and protein complexes inference. FREEPII establishes feature maps that are consistent with model training, and emphasizes learning the feature representation of proteins rather than the feature representation of PPI, reducing the computational complexity from N^2 to N (N: number of proteins). FREEPII uses protein sequences to expand the information available for calculating data similarity between proteins. Furthermore, it introduces network-level information into the final feature representation to rescale the strength of interactions present in CF-MS data.

Proper citation: Feature Representation Enhancement End-to-end Protein Interaction Inference (RRID:SCR_026316) Copy   

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http://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/fslwiki/Atlases

Probabilistic atlases covering 48 cortical and 21 subcortical structural areas, derived from structural data and segmentations kindly provided by the Harvard Center for Morphometric Analysis. T1-weighted images of 21 healthy male and 16 healthy female subjects (ages 18-50) were individually segmented by the CMA using semi-automated tools developed in-house. The T1-weighted images were affine-registered to MNI152 space using FLIRT (FSL), and the transforms then applied to the individual labels. Finally, these were combined across subjects to form population probability maps for each label. Segmentations used to create these atlases were provided by: David Kennedy and Christian Haselgrove, Centre for Morphometric Analysis, Harvard; Bruce Fischl, the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH; Janis Breeze and Jean Frazier from the Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatric Research Program, Cambridge Health Alliance; Larry Seidman and Jill Goldstein from the Department of Psychiatry of Harvard Medical School.

Proper citation: Harvard - Oxford Cortical Structural Atlas (RRID:SCR_001476) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/pennhippoatlas/

Atlas of segmented and normalized high-resolution postmortem MRI of the human hippocampus. Additional data (raw images) is available through the SCM link. It requires knowing how to use CVS.

Proper citation: Penn Hippocampus Atlas (RRID:SCR_000421) Copy   

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