… against drug-resistant strains of Leishmania. This review summarizes research aimed at
investigating the potential development of antimicrobial peptide-based antileishmanial agents. …

… The modes of action of these peptides against Leishmania includes: membrane disruption
… This article reviews the mechanisms of action of antimicrobial peptides with leishmanicidal …

… Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are multifunctional components of the innate systems of
both insect and mammalian hosts of the pathogenic trypanosomatids Leishmania and …

… We demonstrate that antimicrobial peptides induce an autophagic cell death in the … ,
Leishmania donovani. In our study, three antimicrobial peptides, Indolicidin, and two peptides …

… Gene-encoded antimicrobial peptides are promising candidates, but so … antimicrobial
peptides secreted from the skin of the European red frog Rana temporaria, display anti-Leishmania …

… Antimicrobial peptides are rarely used as alternative treatments for … antimicrobial peptide
Oct-CA(1-7)M(2-9) is safe and effective for treating naturally acquired canine leishmaniasis. …

… increasing its stability may improve the antimicrobial effect. The results of this study revealed
that potentiating antimicrobial activity of the peptides with different modification is strongly …

… plant antibiotic peptides (PAPs) from the principal families, such wheat thionins, a barley
lipid transfer protein and potato defensins and snakins were tested in vitro against Leishmania …

… been proposed as underlying the action of peptides against Leishmania parasites, but they
are mostly based on what is known about antimicrobial peptides in general, and hence lack …

… -leishmanial activity of many AMPs families has only been studied in recent years. Leishmaniasis,
a parasitic illness caused by Leishmania … Leishmaniasis is considered by WHO as a …