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antibacterial peptides

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antibacterial peptides,
n.pl natural bactericidal peptides produced in the body and skin and by neutrophils and natural killer cells.


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Thus, because antibacterial peptides are stored in hemocytic granules and released under bacterial stimulation, their immediate synthesis is not required, and the cellular synthesis machinery could be driven to favor the synthesis of other required factors in the first hours of pathogenic invasion.
Toward this end, Canadian researchers have discovered new antibacterial peptides from the enzymatic hydrolysis of lysozyme.
epidermidis; it protected organisms against phagocytosis by neutrophils, antibacterial peptides from human skin, and neutrophil granula.
 
 
 
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