Marine organisms provide an abundant source of potential medicines. Many of the marine-
derived biomaterials have been shown to act as different mechanisms in immune …

Marine bioresources are a valuable source of bioactive compounds with industrial and
nutraceutical potential. Numerous clinical trials evaluating novel chemotherapeutic agents …

Antimicrobial peptides are widely expressed in organisms and have been linked to innate
and acquired immunities in vertebrates. These compounds are constitutively expressed and …

The emergence of pathogenic bacteria resistance to conventional antibiotics calls for an
increased focus on the purification and characterization of antimicrobials with new …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are widely distributed effector molecules that provide a first
line of defence for organisms that lack adaptive immunity, such as crustaceans. They also …

Crustaceans are a large and diverse invertebrate animal group that mounts a complex and
efficient innate immune response against a variety of microorganisms. The crustacean …

Peptide therapeutics play a key role in the development of new medical treatments. The
traditional focus on endogenous peptides has shifted from first discovering other natural …

This review describes the main types of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) synthesised by
crustaceans, primarily those identified in shrimp, crayfish, crab and lobster. It includes an …

The water of the mangrove ecosystem and surrounding coastal areas are gradually
shrinking due to the intense destruction. Therefore, the effects of the physicochemical …

Anti-lipopolysaccharide factors (ALF) are a group of small basic proteins which are released
into the hemolymph as a result of rapid degranulation of hemocytes in response to bacterial …