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Human serum albumin

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Iron-carbohydrate complexes treating iron anaemia: Understanding the nano-structure and interactions with proteins through orthogonal characterisation

Antonia Neels, Marianne Liebi, Tiberiu Totu

Intravenous (IV) iron-carbohydrate complexes are widely used nanoparticles (NPs) to treat iron deficiency anaemia, often associated with medical conditions such as chronic kidney disease, heart failure and various inflammatory conditions. Even though a ple ...

Elsevier2024

Molecular analysis and therapeutic applications of human serum albumin-fatty acid interactions

Alessandro Zorzi, Alessandro Angelini

Human serum albumin (hSA) is the major carrier protein for fatty acids (FAs) in plasma. Its ability to bind multiple FA moieties with moderate to high affinity has inspired the use of FA conjugation as a safe and natural platform to generate long-lasting t ...

ELSEVIER2022

Engineering Modular 3D Liver Culture Microenvironments In Vitro to Parse the Interplay between Biophysical and Biochemical Microenvironment Cues on Hepatic Phenotypes

Ece Yildiz

In vitro models of human liver functions are used across a diverse range of applications in preclinical drug development and disease modeling, with particular increasing interest in models that capture facets of liver inflammatory status. This study invest ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Smart Portable Pen for Continuous Monitoring of Anaesthetics in Human Serum With Machine Learning

Sandro Carrara, Danilo Demarchi, Simone Aiassa, Mandresy Ivan Ny Hanitra

Continuous monitoring of anaesthetics infusion is demanded by anaesthesiologists to help in defining personalized dose, hence reducing risks and side effects. We propose the first piece of technology tailored explicitly to close the loop between anaesthesi ...

2021

An Overview of Serum Albumin Interactions with Biomedical Alloys

Stefano Mischler, Anna Neus Igual Muñoz, Oksana Klok

Understanding the interactions between biomedical alloys and body fluids is of importance for the successful and safe performance of implanted devices. Albumin, as the first protein that comes in contact with an implant surface, can determine the biocompat ...

2020

Promising anti-cancer potency of 4,5,6,7-tetrahydrobenzo[d]thiazole-based Schiff-bases

Kurt Schenk, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani

Four new Schiff-bases have been synthesized from the 1:2 M condensation of 4,5,6,7-tetrahydrobenzothiazole-2,6-diamine with 2-hydroxybenzaldehyde (SL3), 5-Bromo-2-hydroxybenzaldehyde (SL2), 2-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzaldehyde (SL3) and 2-hydroxy-1-naphthaldehy ...

ELSEVIER2020

MRI-based brain volumetry and retinal optical coherence tomography as the biomarkers of outcome in acute methanol poisoning

Tobias Kober, Bénédicte Marie Maréchal

Background: Basal ganglia lesions are typical findings on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain in survivors of acute methanol poisoning. However, no data are available on the association between the magnitude of damaged brain regions, serum concen ...

ELSEVIER2020

Diiron Complexes with a Bridging Functionalized Allylidene Ligand: Synthesis, Structural Aspects, and Cytotoxicity

Paul Joseph Dyson, Lucinda Kate Batchelor

Regio- and stereoselective nucleophilic attack of cyanide (from NBu4CN) to cationic diiron vinyliminium compounds [Fe2Cp2(CO)(mu-CO){mu-eta(1):eta(3)-C-(R')C(R '')-CNMe2}]CF3SO3 ([1a-f]CF3SO3) affords the nitrile-aminoallylidene derivatives 2a-f in good to ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Continuous monitoring of propofol in human serum with fouling compensation by support vector classifier

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Danilo Demarchi, Francesca Criscuolo, Simone Aiassa, Francesco Grassi, Mandresy Ivan Ny Hanitra, Tiberiu Totu

We present a new method for electrochemical sensing, which compensates the fouling effect of propofol through machine learning (ML) model. Direct and continuous monitoring of propofol is crucial in the development of automatic systems for control of drug i ...

Elsevier2020

Novel osmium(II)-cymene complexes containing curcumin and bisdemethoxycurcumin ligands

Paul Joseph Dyson, Lucinda Kate Batchelor

The first examples of (arene)Os(II) curcuminoid derivatives have been prepared and characterized. The neutral complexes [(p-cym)Os(curc)Cl] (1) and [( p-cym)Os(bdcurc)Cl] ( 2), together with the cationic derivatives [( p-cym)Os(curc)(PTA)][SO3CF3] (3) and ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

Non-covalent albumin-binding ligands for extending the circulating half-life of small biotherapeutics

Alessandro Zorzi, Alessandro Angelini

Peptides and small protein scaffolds are gaining increasing interest as therapeutics. Similarly to full-length antibodies, they can bind a target with a high binding affinity and specificity while remaining small enough to diffuse into tissues. However, de ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

Cleaning strategy for carbon-based electrodes: Long-term propofol monitoring in human serum

Giovanni De Micheli, Giovanni Boero, Irene Taurino, Francesca Stradolini, Tugba Kilic

In this work, we present a novel electrochemical cleaning procedure for long-term electrochemical monitoring of propofol by using boron-doped diamond (BDD) and pencil graphite electrode (PGE). Propofol is an anesthetic that is widely used for long-lasting ...

Elsevier2018

Highly sensitive enzymatic MWCNTs-based biosensors for detection of abiraterone in human serum

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Nima Aliakbarinodehi

A highly-sensitive enzymatic biosensor is successfully experimented for detection of abiraterone in human serum with significance in personalized medicine and point-of-care chemotherapy of patients with metastatic prostate cancer. The dynamic range and lim ...

2018

On-Chip Spyhole Nanoelectrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry for Sensitive Biomarker Detection in Small Volumes

Hubert Girault, Liang Qiao, Xiaoqin Zhong

A polyimide microfluidic chip with a microhole emitter (Ø 10–12 μm) created on top of a microchannel by scanning laser ablation has been designed for nanoelectrospray ionization (spyhole-nanoESI) to couple microfluidics with mass spectrometry. The spyhole- ...

2018

Negligible interaction of [Ru(Phen) 3 ] 2+ with human serum albumin makes it promising for a reliable in vivo assessment of the tissue oxygenation

Georges Wagnières, Veronika Huntosova

The interaction between a ruthenium - based water soluble oxygen probe ([Ru(Phen)3]2+, phen - phenanthroline) and human serum albumin (HSA) was investigated with the aim of describing the influence of HSA on the [Ru(Phen)3]2+ luminescence properties. Nowad ...

Elsevier2017

Acylated heptapeptide binds albumin with high affinity and application as tag furnishes long-acting peptides

Christian Heinis, Alessandro Zorzi, Jonas Alfred Karl Wilbs, Kaycie Marie Butler, Simon Jan Middendorp

The rapid renal clearance of peptides in vivo limits this attractive platform for the treatment of a broad range of diseases that require prolonged drug half-lives. An intriguing approach for extending peptide circulation times works through a 'piggy-back' ...

Nature Research2017

Carbazole as Linker for Dinuclear Gadolinium-Based MRI Contrast Agents

Lothar Helm, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Loïck Moriggi, Bibimaryam Mousavi

Ligands able to complex two gadolinium ions have been synthesized and characterized in view of the ability of the complexes to increase the spin relaxation of water protons. All ligands are based on the heptadentate diethylenetriaminetetraacetic acid (DTTA ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

Development of an albumin-binding ligand for prolonging the plasma half-life of peptide therapeutics

Alessandro Zorzi

Peptides represent a promising format for the development of therapeutics since they combine the advantages of proteins and small molecules. Several techniques based on rational design or in vitro evolution can be used to develop peptides as therapeutics. ...

EPFL2017

New ionization and tagging methods for mass spectrometry

Xiaoqin Zhong

Mass spectrometry (MS) is an essential detection tool in bioanalytical chemistry owing to its exceptional selectivity and sensitivity, paired with rapid analyte identification and quantification. In this thesis, two classical MS and a newly developed ioniz ...

EPFL2017

A comparative study of simulated body fluids in the presence of proteins

Paul Bowen, Jacques Lemaître, Weitian Zhao

Simulated body fluid (SBF) is widely used as part of an in vitro method to evaluate implant materials such as their apatite forming ability (AFA), a typical indication of potential bone-bonding ability in vivo. We report the use of carbonate-buffered SBFs ...

2017