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Honors Thesis

2016

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Investigating Metal Cations As Potential Inhibitors Of Iapp Aggregation: Kcl, Cacl2, And Cucl2, Megan Burke May 2016

Investigating Metal Cations As Potential Inhibitors Of Iapp Aggregation: Kcl, Cacl2, And Cucl2, Megan Burke

Honors Thesis

IAPP is an amyloid protein that misfolds, causing toxic aggregation in the pancreas of Type II Diabetes patients. In this study, three metal cations (KCl, CaCl2, and CuCl2) are tested in Thioflavin T assays and atomic force microscopy (AFM) to see if they inhibit the aggregation of IAPP.