4 articles in this issue
Kahlio Mader and Lynn B. Dustin
The vast majority of antibodies generated against a virus will be non-neutralising. However, this does not denote an absence of protective capacity. Yet, within the field, there is typically a large focus on antibodies capable of directly blocking infecti... see more
Lindsay E. Bass and Rachel H. Bonami
Islet autoantibodies predict type 1 diabetes (T1D) but can be transient in murine and human T1D and are not thought to be directly pathogenic. Rather, these autoantibodies signal B cell activity as antigen-presenting cells (APCs) that present islet autoan... see more
Sophie A. Ragan, Caitlin Doyle, Neha Datta, Heather Abdic, Mark H. Wilcox, Ros Montgomery, Shanika A. Crusz, Yashwant R. Mahida and Tanya M. Monaghan
Background: Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) for Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) no longer features in treatment guidelines. However, IVIg is still used by some clinicians for severe or recurrent CDI (rCDI) cases. The main objective of this stud... see more
Tahereh Keshvari, Stanislav Melnik, Lin Sun, Ali Niazi, Farzaneh Aram, Ali Moghadam, Benjamin Kogelmann, Gordana Wozniak-Knopp, Somanath Kallolimath, Amin Ramezani and Herta Steinkellner
Aflibercept is a therapeutic recombinant fusion protein comprising extracellular domains of human vascular endothelial growth factor receptors (VEGFRs) and IgG1-Fc. It is a highly glycosylated protein with five N-glycosylation sites that might impact it s... see more