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Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 The current treatments applied in aquaculture to limit disease dissemination are mostly based on the use of antibiotics, either as prophylactic or therapeutic agents, with vaccines being available for a limited number of fish species and pathogens ...
Carolina Barroso +11 more
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Molecules, 2015 The increasing frequency of multi-drug resistant microorganisms has driven research into alternative therapeutic strategies. In this respect, natural antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) hold much promise as candidates for the development of novel antibiotics ...
Lisa Lombardi +3 more
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Fish-derived hepcidins in cancer treatment: a scoping review
Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied SciencesBackground The discovery of hepcidin, a peptide hormone primarily known for iron homeostasis regulation, has revealed promising anticancer properties.
Wan-Atirah Azemin +4 more
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Human Antimicrobial Peptides as Therapeutics for Viral Infections
Viruses, 2019 Successful in vivo infection following pathogen entry requires the evasion and subversion of multiple immunological barriers. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are one of the first immune pathways upregulated during infection by multiple pathogens, in ...
Aslaa Ahmed +4 more
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Hepcidin as a risk marker for cardiovascular disease in periodontitis—A case control study
Journal of Indian Academy of Oral Medicine and Radiology, 2023 Background: Hepcidin is a 25 amino acid peptide expressed in the liver. Discovered as late as 2002, hepcidin is a master regulator of iron metabolism and is sensitive to inflammation. Chronic periodontitis, being an inflammatory condition, affects levels
Tejavathi Nagaraj +5 more
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Large Hepatocellular Adenoma Presenting with Iron Deficiency Anemia: A Case Report
Clinical Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, 2023 Hepatocellular adenoma is an uncommon, benign liver tumor usually occurring in patients using estrogen or anabolic androgens and in those with a genetic disease, including glycogen storage disease.
Young Kwon Koh +7 more
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2020 Hepcidin, an antimicrobial peptide produced by the liver, also controls the iron balance and regeneration in vertebrates. Two types of hepcidin (Hamp1 and Hamp2) have been found in the bodies of black rockfish (Sebastes schlegelii).
Yunqi Ma +7 more
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Verification of the Automated ELISA Assay for Hepcidin-25 in Human Serum
Southeastern European Medical Journal, 2023 Introduction: Hepcidin-25, the bioactive form of hepcidin, is the master protein in regulating iron homeostasis. Serum concentrations, measured by different methods, are often incomparable and complicate results interpretation.
Tara Rolić +4 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Iron is essential for all living things, especially marine organisms, due to its low availability in the marine environment. Iron regulation is key in all vertebrates and is controlled by hepcidin–ferroportin. To improve the knowledge of iron homeostasis
Jhon A. Serna-Duque +4 more
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Biomolecules, 2020 In this study, the functions of a recombinant propeptide (rProOn-Hep1) and the synthetic FITC-labelled mature peptides sMatOn-Hep1 and sMatOn-Hep2 were analyzed.
Pagaporn Phan-Aram +4 more
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