Coleopteran Antimicrobial Peptides: Prospects for Clinical Applications by Monde Ntwasa, Akira Goto, Shoichiro Kurata

“…Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are activated in response to septic injury and have important roles in vertebrate and invertebrate immune systems. …”
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Regulation of Dopamine Uptake by Vasoactive Peptides in the Kidney by N. L. Rukavina Mikusic, N. M. Kouyoumdzian, E. Rouvier, M. M. Gironacci, J. E. Toblli, B. E. Fernández, M. R. Choi

“…Considering the key role of renal dopamine in tubular sodium handling, we hypothesized that c-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) and Ang-(1-7) may regulate renal dopamine availability in tubular cells, contributing to Na+, K+-ATPase inhibition. …”
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Pulse protein quality and derived bioactive peptides by Matthew G. Nosworthy, Matthew G. Nosworthy, Bianyun Yu, L. Irina Zaharia, Gerardo Medina, Nii Patterson

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Antibacterial Activity of Rationally Designed Antimicrobial Peptides by Marius B. Tincho, Thureyah Morris, Mervin Meyer, Ashley Pretorius

“…Furthermore, the cytotoxic activity of these two peptides was significantly low, even at an AMP concentration of 100 μg/ml. …”
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AI Methods for Antimicrobial Peptides: Progress and Challenges by Carlos A. Brizuela, Gary Liu, Jonathan M. Stokes, Cesar de laFuente‐Nunez

“…ABSTRACT Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are promising candidates to combat multidrug‐resistant pathogens. …”
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Peptide-Based Vaccination Therapy for Rheumatic Diseases by Bin Wang, Shiju Chen, Qing Zheng, Yuan Liu, Guixiu Shi

“…Moreover, peptide-based tolerogenic vaccinations also have encouraging results in treating RA or SLE. …”
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Brain Natriuretic Peptide Production and Secretion in Inflammation by Tsuneo Ogawa, Adolfo J. de Bold

“…Gene expression and secretion of the cardiac polypeptide hormones atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) are simultaneously upregulated in various cardiac disorders such as congestive heart failure, ischemic heart disease, and hypertensive heart disease, in which hemodynamic or neuroendocrine changes are key components in the progression of disease. …”
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Melanocortin Peptide Therapy for the Treatment of Arthritic Pathologies by S. J. Getting, M. Kaneva, Y. Bhadresa, D. Renshaw, Giovanna Leoni, H. B. Patel, M. J. P. Kerrigan, I. C. Locke

“…This review highlights the therapeutic potential of naturally occurring hormones and their peptides, in both arthritic models of disease and patients. …”
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Synthesis and Antimicrobial Activity of Quinazolinone Conjugated Peptides by G. P. Suresha, K. C. Prakasha, Wethroe Kapfo, D. Channe Gowda

“…Antimicrobial compounds were synthesized by coupling 4-(4-oxo-3,4-dihydroquinazolin-2-yl) butanoic acid with VP, GVP, VGVP and GVGVP peptides. Antimicrobial activities of the synthesized compounds were performed against various bacterial strains by disc diffusion method. …”
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Proinflammatory Effects of C-Peptide in Different Tissues by Dusica Vasic, Daniel Walcher

“…Atherosclerosis is well known as an inflammatory disease that can lead to clinical complications such as heart attack or stroke. C-peptide as a cleavage product of proinsulin is in the last few decades known as an active peptide with a number of different effects on microvascular and macrovascular complications in type 2 diabetic patients. …”
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Evaluation of peptide secondary structure and intracellular uptake by introducing disubstituted amino acids into the amphipathic helical peptide C18AA by Takuma Kato, Go Ofuka, Ryota Kobayashi, Akiko Asano, Mitsunobu Doi

Subjects: “…Cell-penetrating peptide…”
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Understanding the multifaceted nature of peptide hydrogels in biomedical research by Srestha Ghosh, Shinjini Chaudhuri, Subhabrata Guha, Gaurav Das

“…In this review, we will present the recent advancements that have occurred in the field of peptide-based hydrogels concerning its biomedical applications especially delivery of targeted delivery, wound healing, tissue engineering, stem cell therapy, etc.…”
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Advances and prospects of cell-penetrating peptides in tumor immunotherapy by Di Yang, Baorui Liu, Huizi Sha

Subjects: “…Cell-penetrating peptides…”
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In Vitro Investigation of Novel Peptide Hydrogels for Enamel Remineralization by Codruta Sarosi, Alexandrina Muntean, Stanca Cuc, Ioan Petean, Sonia Balint, Marioara Moldovan, Aurel George Mohan

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Recent Advances in Chemical Modification of Peptide Nucleic Acids by Eriks Rozners

“…Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) has become an extremely powerful tool in chemistry and biology. …”
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The Antimicrobial Peptide Lysozyme Is Induced after Multiple Trauma by Tim Klüter, Stefanie Fitschen-Oestern, Sebastian Lippross, Matthias Weuster, Rolf Mentlein, Nadine Steubesand, Claudia Neunaber, Frank Hildebrand, Thomas Pufe, Mersedeh Tohidnezhad, Andreas Beyer, Andreas Seekamp, Deike Varoga

“…The antimicrobial peptide lysozyme is an important factor of innate immunity and exerts high potential of antibacterial activity. …”
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The Role of Natriuretic Peptides for the Diagnosis of Left Ventricular Dysfunction by Alberto Palazzuoli, Matteo Beltrami, Gaetano Ruocco, Marco Pellegrini, Ranuccio Nuti

“…Natriuretic peptides (NPs) are entered in current guidelines for heart failure (HF) diagnosis and management because of their high specificity and sensibility in screening patients with acute dyspnea. …”
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Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide in Tension-Type Headache by M. Ashina

“…In the last 10 years there has been increasing interest in the role of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) in primary headaches. Tension-type headache is one of the most common and important types of primary headaches, and ongoing nociception from myofascial tissues may play an important role in the pathophysiology of this disorder. …”
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Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide (CGRP) in Cerebrovascular Disease by Lars Edvinsson

“…In cluster headache there is an additional release of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP).…”
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Structural information in therapeutic peptides: Emerging applications in biomedicine by Valentín Iglesias, Oriol Bárcenas, Carlos Pintado‐Grima, Michał Burdukiewicz, Salvador Ventura

Subjects: “…antimicrobial peptides…”
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