Synthetic Defensins as Treatments for Borreliosis (Americans suck at everything)
Mort Zuckerman
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Subject: Synthetic Defensins as Treatments for Borreliosis
Date: Oct 6, 2009 9:10 AM
Well, *yeah*. We didn't expect
*AMERICANS* or AmerISRAELIS to do
anything logical or about a treatment
or cure for Lyme. With only a profit
motive there is no science or fact
or logic or truth. That's why Americans
suck at everything.
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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xp Appl Acarol. 2009 Nov;49(3):221-8. Epub 2009 Feb 20.Click here to
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Antimicrobial activity of three tick defensins and four mammalian
cathelicidin-derived synthetic peptides against Lyme disease
spirochetes and bacteria isolated from the midgut.
Isogai E, Isogai H, Takahashi K, Kobayashi-Sakamoto M, Okumura K.
Department of Disease Control and Molecular Epidemiology, Health
Sciences University of Hokkaido, Ishikari-Tobetsu 1757, Hokkaido,
061-0293, Japan. em...@hoku-iryo-u.ac.jp
In this study, chemically synthesized tick defensins and
cathelicidin-derived mammalian peptides were used to investigate the
activity spectrum against Borrelia garinii and symbiotic
Stenotrophomonas maltophila. Synthetic tick defensins showed
antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus but not B.
garinii and S. maltophila. Mammalian peptides which have cationic
property similar to tick defensins, showed antimicrobial activity
similar to tick defensins. The antimicrobial peptides in ticks and
mammalian hosts have common characteristics against microbial invasion
in the innate immune system.
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