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The antimicrobial peptide double cooperative effect, where the mixture of two major antimicrobial peptides LL-37 and HNP1 kills bacteria more efficiently while minimizing the host damage by suppressing mammalian cell membrane lysis, has garnered atte…
Each year, 3.3 million Americans are diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancers (NMSC) and an additional 40 million individuals undergo treatment of precancerous actinic keratosis lesions. The most effective treatments of NMSC (surgical excision and Mo…
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a crucial component of the natural defense system that the host employs to protect itself against invading pathogens. PMAP-23, a cathelicidin-derived AMP, has potent and broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity. Our ear…
Pseudorabies virus (PRV), the causative pathogen of Aujeszky's disease, is one of the most important pathogens threatening the global pig industry. Although vaccination has been used to prevent PRV infection, the virus cannot be eliminated in pigs. T…
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been investigated for their potential use as an alternative to antibiotics due to the increased demand for new antimicrobial agents. AMPs, widely found in nature and obtained from microorganisms, have a broad range…
We have previously demonstrated spermicidal activity of LL-37 antimicrobial peptide on mouse/human sperm and its contraceptive effects in female mice. With its microbicidal action against Neisseria gonorrhoeae, LL-37 warrants development into a multi…
BACKGROUND: Leprosy, a chronic infectious peripheral neuropathy, is caused by. This bacterium produces triacylated lipopeptides that can induce the immune system via the Toll-like receptor 2/1 (TLR 2/1) complex. Activation of TLR 2/1 produces proinfl…
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) represent a promising class of compounds to fight resistant infections. They are commonly thought to kill bacteria by perturbing the permeability of their cell membranes. However, bacterial killing requires a high covera…
Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) is a widely distributed virus. HSV-1 is a growing public health concern due to the emergence of drug-resistant strains and the current lack of a clinically specific drug for treatment. In recent years, increasing attent…
Antibacterial peptides are endogenous polypeptides produced by multicellular organisms to protect the host against pathogenic microbes, they show broad spectrum antimicrobial activities against various microorganisms and possess low propensity for de…
Based on the results of previously performed clinical studies, cathelicidin-1 has been proposed as a potential biomarker for the early diagnosis of mastitis in ewes. It has been hypothesized that the detection of unique peptides (defined as a peptide…
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Studies of autoimmunity and anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPA) in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) have been confined to investigations of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) antibodies which utilize sy…
PURPOSE: Psoriasis is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease involving the production of many pro-inflammatory cytokines derived from immune cells and interacting with different tissues leading to the typical skin lesions. Psoriasis shows a higher p…
Atopic dermatitis is an inflammatory skin disease characterized by significant permeability barrier damage. Regulation and maintenance of permeability and antimicrobial skin barriers are strongly connected. There is a lack of comprehensive studies of…
BACKGROUND: Biomaterials must allow revascularization for a successful tissue regeneration process. Biomaterials formulated from the extracellular matrix (ECM) have gained popularity in tissue engineering because of their superior biocompatibility, a…
Wound-healing-promoting peptides are excellent candidates for developing wound-healing agents due to their small size and low production cost. Amphibians are one of the major sources of bioactive peptides, including wound-healing-promoting peptides.…
BACKGROUND: Within healthy dietary patterns, manipulation of the proportion of macronutrient can reduce CVD risk. However, the biological pathways underlying healthy diet-disease associations are poorly understood. Using an untargeted, large-scale pr…
Human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 is the most common sexually transmitted virus related to cervical cancer. Among different types of advanced novel therapies, the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/Cas-mediated gene ed…
Backgroundis certainly one individual organism contributing to the most deaths of children among the world's lower- and medium-income nations. According to earlier studies, vitamin D insufficiency is one of the risk factors. We undertook this study s…