Essential oils are aromatic and volatile liquids extracted from plants. The chemicals in
essential oils are secondary metabolites, which play an important role in plant defense as …

Multidrug-resistant bacteria are a severe threat to public health. Conventional antibiotics are
becoming increasingly ineffective as a result of resistance, and it is imperative to find new …

Neutrophils are the most abundant white blood cells in circulation, and patients with
congenital neutrophil deficiencies suffer from severe infections that are often fatal …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) take part in the immune system by mounting a first line of
defense against pathogens. Recurrent structural and functional aspects are observed …

Defensins are small, multifunctional cationic peptides. They typically contain six conserved
cysteines whose three intramolecular disulfides stabilize a largely β‐sheet structure. This …

Defensins comprise one of the largest groups of host defence peptides, present throughout
evolution, in fungi and flowering plants as well as in invertebrates and vertebrates. These …

For more than 50 years dequalinium chloride has been used successfully as an antiseptic
drug and disinfectant, particularly for clinical purposes. Given the success of dequalinium …

The peptidoglycan biosynthetic pathway is a critical process in the bacterial cell and is
exploited as a target for the design of antibiotics. This pathway culminates in the production …

The emergence of infections caused by multi-drug resistant (MDR) pathogens pose a major
burden to modern healthcare. Exacerbating this issue is the substantial decline in …

The ideal wound-healing scaffold should provide the appropriate physical and mechanical
properties to prevent secondary infection, as well as an excellent physiological environment …