Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are promising novel antibiotics, because they exhibit broad
antimicrobial spectra and do not easily induce resistance. For clinical applications, it is …

Muscle necrosis is a potential clinical complication of snakebite envenomings, which in
severe cases can lead to functional or physical sequelae such as disability or amputation …

The Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles offers" one-stop shopping" to all biologists,
biochemists, toxicologists, physicians, clinicians, and epidemiologists, and informed …

Background To unravel the strategy by which Brucella abortus establishes chronic
infections, we explored its early interaction with innate immunity. Methodology/Principal …

Background Cathelicidins are a family of antimicrobial peptides acting as multifunctional
effector molecules of innate immunity, which are firstly found in mammalians. Recently …

Bioactive peptides are specific peptide fragments that positively exert various functional and
biological activities and ultimately influence health. Corn protein are potential precursor …

Hospitals are breeding grounds for many life-threatening bacteria worldwide. Clinically
associated gram-positive bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus/methicillin-resistant S …

Antibacterial properties of secreted phospholipases A2 (PLA2) have emerged gradually.
Group (G) IIA PLA2 is the most potent among mammalian secreted (s) PLA2s against Gram …

Reptiles are among the oldest known amniotes and are highly diverse in their morphology
and ecological niches. These animals have an evolutionarily ancient innate-immune system …

Skin secretions from frogs belonging to the genera Xenopus, Silurana, Hymenochirus, and
Pseudhymenochirus in the family Pipidae are a rich source of host-defense peptides with …