In recent years, the occurrence of a wide variety of drug-resistant diseases has led to an
increase in interest in alternate therapies. Peptide-based drugs as an alternate therapy hold …

Since RGD peptides (R: arginine; G: glycine; D: aspartic acid) have been found to promote
cell adhesion in 1984 (Cell attachment activity of fibronectin can be duplicated by small …

The intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) constitute the primary barrier between host cells and
numerous foreign antigens; it is unclear how IECs induce the protective immunity against …

Caspases are a family of cysteine proteases that play important roles in regulating
apoptosis. A decade of research has generated a wealth of information on the signal …

Caspases play an essential role during apoptotic cell death. These enzymes define a new
class of cysteine proteases and comprise a multi-gene family with more than a dozen distinct …

Caspases are a large family of evolutionarily conserved proteases found from
Caenorhabditis elegans to humans. Although the first caspase was identified as a …

Angiogenesis, or the formation of new blood vessels out of pre-existing capillaries, is a
sequence of events that is fundamental to many physiologic and pathologic processes such …

Emerging evidence suggests that altered components and posttranslational modifications of
proteins in the extracellular matrix (ECM) may both initiate and drive disease progression …

Peptide therapy has started since 1920s with the advent of insulin application, and now it
has emerged as a new approach in treatment of diseases including cancer. Using anti …

Focuses on tissue engineering as paradigm for periodontal regeneration based on
molecular and cell biology. Reestablishment of soft tissue attachment on root surface; …