Antimicrobial and host-defense peptides as new anti-infective therapeutic strategies

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Summary

The role of cationic host-defense peptides in modulating the innate immune response and boosting infection-resolving immunity while dampening potentially harmful pro-inflammatory (septic) responses gives these peptides the potential to become an entirely new therapeutic approach against bacterial infections.

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review
Published
2006-12-01
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Keywords

Antimicrobial peptides, Antimicrobial, Innate immune system, Antibiotics, Protease

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