| Immune Response to COVID-19 Bivalent Booster Vaccination Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women and Their Infants | Inclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant women (18-50 years of age) who plan to breastfeed;
- Do not have anemia (determined from first blood draw);
- English-speaking; and
- Have already received a COVID-19 vaccine and are planning on receiving a COVID-19 bivalent booster during pregnancy
- Infants of mothers in this study |
| Hyperpolarized Xenon as an Inhaled Gaseous Contrast Agent for MRI | Adults, age 18 and older, with or without a diagnosis of a lung disease.
Children age 7 and older, with or without a diagnosis of a lung disease. |
| CAT BITE Antibiotic Prophylaxis and Durations for the Hand/Forearm (CATBITE): A Prospective, Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Double-blinded, Clinical Trial | Inclusion criteria
-Patients greater or equal to 18 years of age.
-Bitten by a cat.
-Location of bite is the hand and/or forearm (distal to elbow).
-Presenting <24 hours following a cat bite to the hand/forearm.
-English speaking
Exclusion criteria
-Patients who present with active local or systemic infections.
-Received antibiotics within the past 30 days.
-Patients unwilling to take study medication.
-Pregnant women.
-Type I hypersensitivity reaction to any of the study interventions.
-Immunocompromised patients (primary and secondary immunodeficiencies).
Primary and secondary immunodeficiencies can be found at the following link.
https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/immunology-allergic-disorders/immunodeficiency-disorders/overview-of-immunodeficiency-disorders |
| HYPERPOLARIZED XENON MRI IN TREATMENT OF SEVERE ASTHMA BY MEPOLIZUMAB: TOWARD EARLIER DETECTION OF INDIVIDUAL PATIENT RESPONSES | Diagnosed with asthma, at clinical baseline, and about to start on biologic therapy. Ages 12 and older. |
| Interdisciplinary Play Project | To be eligible, your child must be 4-5 years of age. |
| Disruption of semen liquefaction using specific KLK3 inhibitors as a new contraceptive | A healthy male in the reproductive age (18 years or older) |
| Instrumented Assessment in Ambulatory Children with Cerebral Palsy | We are seeking children aged 7-17 years old with and without cerebral palsy. Children should be ambulatory without an assistive device, and English speaking. |
| Short Term ApoE-dependent Cerebral Blood Flow and Lung Perfusion Response to Sirolimus in Cognitively Normal Adults | Healthy adults aged 45-65 |
| Sex disparities in the direct and modulatory effect of the β-adrenergic receptors in hypoxic vasodilation and impact of obesity. | 18-45 years old, No acute or chronic health conditions. |
| Tonic GABAergic inhibition during the repair phase of human stroke | Adult (18 to 80 years) patients who have arm weakness after a stroke and are undergoing inpatient rehabilitation at Rusk Rehabilitation Hospital.
Adult (18 to 80 years) healthy controls who have no major neurological, psychiatric, or hand/arm orthopedic issues. |
| Utility of Ultrasonography in predicting clinical response following prostate artery embolization in patients with lower urinary tract symptoms from benign prostatic enlargement | Males, greater than 45 years and older who have moderate to severe lower urinary tract symptoms that have not responded to medical treatment. |
| Youth and Caregiver Executive Functioning Study | Youth 11 to 17 years of age and a parent or caregiver |
| Attachment, Cognition, and Emotion Study | African American and European American (not Hispanic/Latinx) male and female undergraduate students between the ages of 18-25 years who are born in the United States. Eligible participants should not have experienced a significant head injury, have been unconscious for longer than 10 min, have multiple sclerosis/epilepsy/other neurological disorder. |
| Mechanisms of Gesture Observation’s Impact on Learning | Age 18-35
Native English speaker
No knowledge of tonal languages (e.g., Mandarin, Cantonese, Thai) |
| Effects of Lean Beef Consumption on Cardiometabolic Health and Gut Microbiome | Inclusion criteria include:
Age: 18-45 years of age
Weight status: Normal, overweight, or mildly obese (BMI: 18-35 kg/m2)
Willingness to consume study foods and comply with study protocol
Consistent diet and activity patterns for 4 weeks
Weight stable (≤5 kg change over the last 3 months)
Non-smoker >1 year or more
No allergies to study foods
Not pregnant or lactating
No recent consumption of antibiotics or probiotics
Non-regular consumers of red meat or plant-based meat (≤3 times/week)
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| Examining verbal and nonverbal communication in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder | Of age specified for the study (between 2 and 35)
Native English speaker
Diagnosed with ASD or not
IQ >= 70
Right-handed
Uses Phrase Speech |
| Trial of Propranolol in Older Adults with Primary Progressive Aphasia | Age 50 and older, have a diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia and be a native English speaker. For healthy controls, no PPA diagnosis is necessary for inclusion. |
| Lipoprotein kinetics in T1D | Adults between 18 to 45 years old. Either healthy or has Type 1 diabetes. |
| Harnessing macrophage lysosomal lipid metabolism in obesity-associated diseases | Between 18-70 years old; not pregnant or breastfeeding; weight stable and sedentary before enrollment; no use tobacco products, excessive amounts of alcohol, or dietary supplements, or medications known to or suspected to affect glucose and lipid metabolism; and no evidence of significant organ system dysfunction or disease (e.g. chronic severe kidney disease, cancer). |
| MU School of Medicine Participant Registry for Research (PRR) | 18 years and older. |
| High protein diet and atherosclerosis (HPA) | Man or woman aged 45-75 years old |
| MRI Sequence Development, Radiofrequency Coil Testing, and Protocol Optimization | Healthy adults ages 18 and older. |
| Advancing Radiology Techniques | Subjects age 6 years and older. |
| Epithelial sodium channels in endothelial cells and arterial stiffening | Participants aged between 18-35 years at the time of enrollment will be recruited. Healthy volunteers are individuals without hypertension, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, renal disease and medications.
Clinical hypertension is diagnosed when systolic blood pressure is ≥130 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure is ≥ 80 mmHg. Obesity is diagnosed as a body mass index (BMI) > 30. Participants with hypertension on medication, or obesity with or without diabetes on medication, are eligible for recruitment. |
| Multimodal, Porous, Starfish-Like Soft Wearable Bioelectronic Systems for Motion-Artifact-Resilient, Real-Time and High-Accuracy Cardiac Monitoring | Our group team is currently seeking healthy volunteers and volunteers with atrial fibrillation aged between 19 and 65. We will exclude children, pregnant women, and prisoners from participating. Participants with severe or unstable AF who may require urgent medical care will be excluded to ensure participant safety. |
