Antimicrobial peptides: A new hope in biomedical and pharmaceutical fields

A Moretta, C Scieuzo, AM Petrone, R Salvia… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Antibiotics are essential drugs used to treat pathogenic bacteria, but their prolonged use
contributes to the development and spread of drug-resistant microorganisms. Antibiotic …

Antimicrobial peptides—Mechanisms of action, antimicrobial effects and clinical applications

J Talapko, T Meštrović, M Juzbašić, M Tomas, S Erić… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The growing emergence of antimicrobial resistance represents a global problem that not
only influences healthcare systems but also has grave implications for political and …

A high-quality Ixodes scapularis genome advances tick science

S De, SB Kingan, C Kitsou, DM Portik, SD Foor… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Ixodes spp. and related ticks transmit prevalent infections, although knowledge of their
biology and development of anti-tick measures have been hindered by the lack of a high …

Application of antimicrobial peptides of the innate immune system in combination with conventional antibiotics—a novel way to combat antibiotic resistance?

MS Zharkova, DS Orlov, OY Golubeva… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Rapidly growing resistance of pathogenic bacteria to conventional antibiotics leads to
inefficiency of traditional approaches of countering infections and determines the urgent …

β-Defensins: farming the microbiome for homeostasis and health

KG Meade, C O'Farrelly - Frontiers in Immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Diverse commensal populations are now regarded as key to physiological homeostasis and
protection against disease. Although bacteria are the most abundant component of …

Immune response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines

N Bellamkonda, UP Lambe, S Sawant, SS Nandi… - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
COVID-19 vaccines have been developed to confer immunity against the SARS-CoV-2
infection. Prior to the pandemic of COVID-19 which started in March 2020, there was a well …

Bacterial vaginosis: a critical analysis of current knowledge

D Nasioudis, IM Linhares, WJ Ledger… - BJOG: An International …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial vaginosis (BV), the change from a Lactobacillus‐dominant vaginal microbiota to an
anaerobic and facultative bacterial dominance, is associated with pathological sequelae. In …

Plant secondary metabolites: an introduction of their chemistry and biological significance with physicochemical aspect

A Sharma, S Sharma, A Kumar, V Kumar… - … -chemical properties and …, 2022 - Springer
Nature is the immense source of chemical compounds or substances usually acknowledged
as natural products. Plants are the considerable source of an inestimable diversity of natural …

Immunomodulatory potential of black soldier fly larvae: applications beyond nutrition in animal feeding programs

E Koutsos, B Modica, T Freel - Translational Animal Science, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Insect-derived ingredients, including whole larvae, protein-rich meal, and oil, have been
extensively studied in recent years and shown to be a sustainable source of quality nutrition …

The role of bacterial and fungal human respiratory microbiota in COVID‐19 patients

S Soltani, A Zakeri, M Zandi, MM Kesheh… - BioMed research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), the etiologic
agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), has led to a worldwide pandemic with …