When carnivores that roam our Earth feast gleefully on the flesh of their prey, the hard, unpalatable bones are usually left ...

Bioactive peptides derived from proteins generally need to be folded into secondary structures to activate downstream signaling pathways. However, synthetic peptides typically form random-coils, thus ...

What are the effects of the interactions between bacterial toxins and the gastrointestinal mucosa?

Figure 3 Amniotic Fluid Stem (AFS) cells decrease gut inflammation and enterocyte apoptosis and promote enterocyte proliferation/migration in rats with necrotising enterocolitis (NEC). (A) Cluster ...

Background: Circulating levels of endotoxin (or lipopolysaccharide (LPS)) and anti-endotoxin antibodies are increased in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, supporting the hypothesis of a role ...

The enzymes required for the incorporation of host fatty acids into the membrane phospholipids of Gram-positive bacterial pathogens are unknown. Fatty acid kinase (Fak) is a new enzyme in lipid ...