A collagen mimetic peptide-modified hyaluronic acid hydrogel system with enzymatically mediated degradation for mesenchymal stem cell differentiation

2020 / Materials Science and Engineering: C

We have successfully designed and synthesized a biomimetic hydrogel system with maleimide-modified hyaluronic acid (HA) as the backbone and conjugated… Continue reading A collagen mimetic peptide-modified hyaluronic acid hydrogel system with enzymatically mediated degradation for mesenchymal stem cell differentiation

Leah Pandiscia, PhD

Magnetic and Electric Control of Circularly Polarized Emission through Tuning Chirality‐Generated Orbital Angular Momentum in Organic Helical Polymeric Nanofibers

2019 / Advanced Materials

Circularly polarized light emission promotes the development of smart photonic materials for advanced applications in chiral sensing and information storage.… Continue reading Magnetic and Electric Control of Circularly Polarized Emission through Tuning Chirality‐Generated Orbital Angular Momentum in Organic Helical Polymeric Nanofibers

Leah Pandiscia, PhD

Phytochemical and biological studies on rare and endangered plants endemic to China. Part XIV. Structurally diverse terpenoids from the twigs and needles of the endangered plant Picea brachytyla

2020 / Phytochemistry

A phytochemical investigation on the MeOH extract of the twigs and needles of the endangered plant Picea brachytyla led to the isolation… Continue reading Phytochemical and biological studies on rare and endangered plants endemic to China. Part XIV. Structurally diverse terpenoids from the twigs and needles of the endangered plant Picea brachytyla

Leah Pandiscia, PhD

Identification and Quantitation of Enantiomers by Capillary Electrophoresis and Circular Dichroism Independent of Single Enantiomer Standard

2019 / Analytical Chemistry

Identification and quantitation of enantiomers is a critical and challenging step in the process of chiral capillary electrophoresis (CE) analysis,… Continue reading Identification and Quantitation of Enantiomers by Capillary Electrophoresis and Circular Dichroism Independent of Single Enantiomer Standard

Leah Pandiscia, PhD

Deep-Red Light-up Signaling of Benzo[c,d]indole–Quinoline Monomethine Cyanine for Imaging of Nucleolar RNA in Living Cells and for Sequence-Selective RNA Analysis

2019 / Analytical Chemistry

RNA-binding small probes with deep-red emission are promising for RNA analysis in biological media without suffering from background fluorescence. Here… Continue reading Deep-Red Light-up Signaling of Benzo[c,d]indole–Quinoline Monomethine Cyanine for Imaging of Nucleolar RNA in Living Cells and for Sequence-Selective RNA Analysis

Leah Pandiscia, PhD

Fabrication and Characterization of Lutein-Loaded Nanoparticles Based on Zein and Sophorolipid: Enhancement of Water Solubility, Stability, and Bioaccessibility

2019 / Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Lutein is a hydrophobic carotenoid with various beneficial biological activities. Its use as a functional food, however, is currently limited… Continue reading Fabrication and Characterization of Lutein-Loaded Nanoparticles Based on Zein and Sophorolipid: Enhancement of Water Solubility, Stability, and Bioaccessibility

Leah Pandiscia, PhD

Discovery of Neolignan Glycosides with Acetylcolinesterase Inhibitory Activity from Huangjinya Green Tea Guided by Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry Data and Global Natural Product Social Molecular Networking

2019 / Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Global Natural Product Social feature-based networking was applied to follow the phytochemicals, including nine flavonoid glycosides, six catechins, and three… Continue reading Discovery of Neolignan Glycosides with Acetylcolinesterase Inhibitory Activity from Huangjinya Green Tea Guided by Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry Data and Global Natural Product Social Molecular Networking

Leah Pandiscia, PhD

Kinetic and thermodynamic insights into interaction of albumin with piperacillin: Spectroscopic and molecular modeling approaches

2019 / Journal of Molecular Liquids

The current study investigated the binding of BSA and piperacillin at multifarious concentrations (1–128 μM) along with four different temperatures. To… Continue reading Kinetic and thermodynamic insights into interaction of albumin with piperacillin: Spectroscopic and molecular modeling approaches

Leah Pandiscia, PhD

Probing the Interfacial Interactions of Monoclonal and Bispecific Antibodies at the Silicone Oil–Aqueous Solution Interface by Using Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy

2019 / Langmuir

Silicone oil has been widely utilized in the pharmaceutical industry especially as a lubricant coating commonly used in syringes for… Continue reading Probing the Interfacial Interactions of Monoclonal and Bispecific Antibodies at the Silicone Oil–Aqueous Solution Interface by Using Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy

Leah Pandiscia, PhD

Polycyclic furanobutenolide-derived norditerpenoids from the South China Sea soft corals Sinularia scabra and Sinularia polydactyla with immunosuppressive activity

2019 / Bioorganic Chemistry

One new polycyclic furanobutenolide-derived norcembranoid, xiguscabrolide H (1), together with eleven known related norditerpenoids 2–12 were isolated from South China Sea soft… Continue reading Polycyclic furanobutenolide-derived norditerpenoids from the South China Sea soft corals Sinularia scabra and Sinularia polydactyla with immunosuppressive activity

Leah Pandiscia, PhD