Scorpion Peptides: Potential Use for New Drug Development

Several peptides contained in scorpion fluids showed diverse array of biological activities with high specificities to their targeted sites. Many investigations outlined their potent effects against microbes and showed their potential to modulate various biological mechanisms that are involved in im...

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Autores principales: Hmed, BenNasr, Serria, Hammami Turky, Mounir, Zeghal Khaled
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3697785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23843786
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/958797
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description Several peptides contained in scorpion fluids showed diverse array of biological activities with high specificities to their targeted sites. Many investigations outlined their potent effects against microbes and showed their potential to modulate various biological mechanisms that are involved in immune, nervous, cardiovascular, and neoplastic diseases. Because of their important structural and functional diversity, it is projected that scorpion-derived peptides could be used to develop new specific drugs. This review summarizes relevant findings improving their use as valuable tools for new drugs development.
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spelling pubmed-36977852013-07-10 Scorpion Peptides: Potential Use for New Drug Development Hmed, BenNasr Serria, Hammami Turky Mounir, Zeghal Khaled J Toxicol Review Article Several peptides contained in scorpion fluids showed diverse array of biological activities with high specificities to their targeted sites. Many investigations outlined their potent effects against microbes and showed their potential to modulate various biological mechanisms that are involved in immune, nervous, cardiovascular, and neoplastic diseases. Because of their important structural and functional diversity, it is projected that scorpion-derived peptides could be used to develop new specific drugs. This review summarizes relevant findings improving their use as valuable tools for new drugs development. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3697785/ /pubmed/23843786 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/958797 Text en Copyright © 2013 BenNasr Hmed et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3697785/
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