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| Despite the most modern of intensive life support measures, this means that 150,000 to 300,000 people die each year in the United States from endotoxic shock (sepsis) and it is estimated that the cost in treating these patients is $5 to $10 billion dollars, annually. Compounds such as CV1013 that can inhibit caspases may potentially form the basis for new drugs for endotoxic shock and other degenerative diseases. |
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