id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 1r66j100r5h Michael William Handlogten Design of a Heterobivalent Inhibitor of Allergy and More Physiologically Relevant Allergy Models 2013 .txt text/plain 348 10 28 These dual targeting HBIs had greater than 120 fold increased affinity for the target IgE compared to the monovalent hapten and prevented mast cell degranulation in a variant of the commonly used DNP/IgEDNP allergy model, however due to the many simplifications of this allergy model a more advanced heterotetravalent allergen (HtTA) model was developed. The HtTA allergy model allowed an integrative approach to study mast cell degranulation by presenting 2 haptens each with a valency of 2 and requiring both hapten specific IgEs to be present on the mast cell surface to stimulate degranulation. cache/1r66j100r5h.txt txt/1r66j100r5h.txt