Natural products have long played a major role in medicine and science. The garden snail
Cornu aspersum is a rich source of biologically active natural substances that might be an …

The search for new natural compounds for application in medicine and cosmetics is a trend
in biotechnology. One of the sources of such active compounds is the snail mucus. Snail …

Peptides continue to arouse an impressive deal of interest in different areas of modern life.
In the last decades, special emphasis was placed on peptides capable of killing pathogenic …

Metabolic profiling based on 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy was
applied with the aim to investigate the functional role of the metabolites in lyophilized mucus …

Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease with
multifactorial etiology, unsatisfactory treatment, and a necessity for broad-spectrum active …

Peptides isolated from the mucus of Cornu aspersum could be prototypes for antibiotics
against pathogenic bacteria. Information regarding the mechanisms, effective concentration …

Chronic wounds result from the failure of the normal wound healing process. Any delay
during the tissue repair process could be defined as chronic wound healing, potentially …

Streptococcus parauberis is a pathogenic gram-positive bacterium that causes
streptococcosis infection in fish. Since S. parauberis is becoming resistant to multiple …

Nowadays, an increased interest in natural compounds with preventive or therapeutic
potential for various diseases has been observed. Given the involvement of oxidative stress …

Hepcidin has been identified as an important antimicrobial peptide exerting important innate
immunomodulatory activities in many fish species. In the present study, reverse transcription …