Antibiotic resistance is projected as one of the greatest threats to human health in the future
and hence alternatives are being explored to combat resistance. Antimicrobial peptides …

The discovery of antibiotics marked a golden age in the revolution of human medicine.
However, decades later, bacterial infections remain a global healthcare threat, and a return …

In the last several decades, there have been significant advances in anticancer therapy.
However, the development of resistance to cancer drugs and the lack of specificity related to …

Among other health related issues, the rising concerns on drug resistance led to look for
alternative pharmaceutical drugs that are effective both against infectious and noninfectious …

With the rapid rise in the emergence of bacterial strains resistant to multiple classes of
antimicrobial agents, there is an urgent need to develop novel antimicrobial therapies to …

Members of the cationic host defense (antimicrobial) peptide family are widely distributed in
nature, existing in organisms from insects to plants to mammals and non-mammalian …

Antimicrobial peptides are diverse group of biologically active molecules with
multidimensional properties. In recent past, a wide variety of AMPs with diverse structures …

Drug resistance of pathogenic bacteria is a major global problem leading humanity towards
a pre-antibiotic era. Decline in the discovery of novel antibiotics and the lack of a resilient …

Prevention of implant-associated infections has been one of the main challenges in
orthopaedic surgery. This challenge is further complicated by the concern over the …

Host-defense cationic antimicrobial peptides (≈ 12–50 aa long) play an essential protective
role in the innate immune system of all organisms. Lipopeptides, however, are produced …