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Host-Defense Peptides with Therapeutic Potential from Skin Secretions of Frogs from the Family Pipidae
- J. Michael Conlon and
- Milena Mechkarska
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 mammali...