Antimicrobial Peptides - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Antimicrobial Peptides write by Katsumi Matsuzaki. This book was released on 2019-04-12. Antimicrobial Peptides available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents an overview of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), their mechanisms of antimicrobial action, other activities, and various problems that must still be overcome regarding their clinical application. Divided into four major parts, the book begins with a general overview of AMPs (Part I), and subsequently discusses the various mechanisms of antimicrobial action and methods for researching them (Part 2). It then addresses a range of activities other than antimicrobial action, such as cell penetration, antisepsis, anticancer, and immunomodulatory activities (Part 3), and explores the prospects of clinical application from various standpoints such as the selective toxicity, design, and discovery of AMPs (Part 4). A huge number of AMPs have been discovered in plants, insects, and vertebrates including humans, and constitute host defense systems against invading pathogenic microorganisms. Consequently, many attempts have been made to utilize AMPs as antibiotics. AMPs could help to solve the urgent problem of drug-resistant bacteria, and are also promising with regard to sepsis and cancer therapy. Gathering a wealth of information, this book will be a bible for all those seeking to develop antibiotics, anti-sepsis, or anticancer agents based on AMPs.
Prokaryotic Antimicrobial Peptides
Prokaryotic Antimicrobial Peptides - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prokaryotic Antimicrobial Peptides write by Djamel Drider. This book was released on 2011-03-08. Prokaryotic Antimicrobial Peptides available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book will provide an overview of the advancement of fundamental knowledge and applications of antimicrobial peptides in biomedical, agricultural, veterinary, food, and cosmetic products. Antimicrobial peptides stand as potentially great alternatives to current antibiotics, and most research in this newly-created area has been published in journals and other periodicals. It is the editors’ opinion that it is timely to sum up the most important achievements in the field and provide the scientific community in a reference book. The goals of this project include illustrating the achievements made so far, debating the state of the art, and drawing new perspectives.
Antimicrobial Peptides
Antimicrobial Peptides - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Antimicrobial Peptides write by David A. Phoenix. This book was released on 2013-04-01. Antimicrobial Peptides available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this text, the small team of expert authors presents the field in a comprehensive and accessible manner that is well suited for students and junior researchers. The result is a highly readable and systematically structured introduction to antimicrobial peptides, their structure, biological function and mode of action. The authors point the way towards a rational design of this potentially highly effective new class of clinical antibiotics on the brink of industrial application. They do this by discussing their design principles, target membranes and structure-activity relationships. The final part of the book describes recent successes in the application of peptides as anticancer agents.
Lessons in Immunity
Lessons in Immunity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lessons in Immunity write by Loriano Ballarin. This book was released on 2016-04-08. Lessons in Immunity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lessons in Immunity: From Single-cell Organisms to Mammals stems from the activity of the Italian Association of Developmental and Comparative Immunobiology (IADCI), represented by the editors. This book is presented as a series of short overviews that report on the current state of various relevant fields of immunobiology from an evolutionary perspective. The overviews are written by authors directly involved in the research, and most are members of the IADCI or have otherwise been involved in the related research for their respective overview. This publication offers scientists and teachers an easy and updated reference tool. - Provides simple and updated reviews on the immunobiology of a wide spectrum of organisms, considered in an evolutionary context - Focuses on both cells and humoral components of a variety of non-classical model organisms - Offers in a single volume many contributions which can help with understanding the evolution of immune responses and the main adaptations in animal phyla - Presents a valuable holistic cross-sectional approach for teaching immunology and its applications
Advances in Computational Biology
Advances in Computational Biology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Advances in Computational Biology write by Luis F. Castillo. This book was released on 2013-08-04. Advances in Computational Biology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume compiles accepted contributions for the 2nd Edition of the Colombian Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Congress CCBCOL, after a rigorous review process in which 54 papers were accepted for publication from 119 submitted contributions. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology are areas of knowledge that have emerged due to advances that have taken place in the Biological Sciences and its integration with Information Sciences. The expansion of projects involving the study of genomes has led the way in the production of vast amounts of sequence data which needs to be organized, analyzed and stored to understand phenomena associated with living organisms related to their evolution, behavior in different ecosystems, and the development of applications that can be derived from this analysis.
