Physical Characterization and Innate Immunogenicity of Aggregated Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IGIV) in an In Vitro Cell-Based Model

2016 / Pharmaceutical Research

To investigate in vitro the innate immune response to accelerated stress-induced aggregates of intravenous immunoglobulin (IGIV) using a well-defined human cell-line model,… Continue reading Physical Characterization and Innate Immunogenicity of Aggregated Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IGIV) in an In Vitro Cell-Based Model

Leah Pandiscia, PhD

Formation of calcium phosphate nanostructures under the influence of self-assembling hybrid elastin-like-statherin recombinamers

2016 / RSC Advances

The self-assembling properties of thermally-sensitive amphiphilic elastin-like multiblock recombinamers have been combined with the capacities of calcium phosphate binding of… Continue reading Formation of calcium phosphate nanostructures under the influence of self-assembling hybrid elastin-like-statherin recombinamers

Leah Pandiscia, PhD

Aβ40 has a subtle effect on Aβ42 protofibril formation, but to a lesser degree than Aβ42 concentration, in Aβ42/Aβ40 mixtures

2016 / Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Recent findings suggest that the senile plaques in Alzheimer’s disease may contain soluble amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) fibril precursors along with… Continue reading Aβ40 has a subtle effect on Aβ42 protofibril formation, but to a lesser degree than Aβ42 concentration, in Aβ42/Aβ40 mixtures

Leah Pandiscia, PhD

Differential mode of interaction of ThioflavinT with native β structural motif in Human α 1-acid glycoprotein and cross beta sheet of its amyloid: Biophysical and molecular docking approach

2016 / Journal of Molecular Structure

The present study details the interaction mechanism of Thioflavin T (ThT) to Human α1-acid glycoprotein (AAG) applying various spectroscopic and… Continue reading Differential mode of interaction of ThioflavinT with native β structural motif in Human α 1-acid glycoprotein and cross beta sheet of its amyloid: Biophysical and molecular docking approach

Leah Pandiscia, PhD