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Host-Defense Peptides with Therapeutic Potential from Skin Secretions of Frogs from the Family Pipidae

Skin secretions from frogs belonging to the genera Xenopus, Silurana, Hymenochirus, and Pseudhymenochirus in the family Pipidae are a rich source of host-defense peptides with varying degrees of antimicrobial activities and cytotoxicities to mammalian cells. Magainin, peptide glycine-leucine-amide (...

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Autores principales: Conlon, J. Michael, Mechkarska, Milena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3915195/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24434793
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ph7010058