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Antimicrobial Peptides: An Emerging Category of Therapeutic Agents
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), also known as host defense peptides, are short and generally positively charged peptides found in a wide variety of life forms from microorganisms to humans. Most AMPs have the ability to kill microbial pathogens directly, whereas others act indirectly by modulating th...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5186781/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28083516 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2016.00194 |