Fish is considered to be an important model in comparative immunology studies because it
is a representative population of lower vertebrates serving as an essential link to early …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are found widely distributed through Nature, and participate
in the innate host defense of each species. Fish are a great source of these peptides, as they …

Fish are a major component of the aquatic fauna. Like other organisms, fish secrete different
kinds of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), which are positively charged short amino-acid-chain …

Fish antimicrobial peptides (AMP s) are small peptides whose actions have great
implications in the innate immune response of teleost fish, being considered critical as the …

The knowledge of how organisms fight infections has largely been built upon the ability of
host innate immune molecules to recognize microbial determinants. Although of …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been identified throughout the metazoa suggesting their
evolutionarily conserved nature and their presence in teleosts is no exception. AMPs are …

Using a database mining approach, multiple defensin like genes have been discovered for
the first time in fish, in species including zebrafish Danio rerio and the pufferfish, Takifugu …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are important mediators of the immune response against
bacteria and hepcidin is a 20–25 residues member with known functions in iron regulation …

Hepcidin gene is widely expressed in various fish, suggesting that this antimicrobial peptide
is a very important component in the innate immune system. Large yellow croaker …

The role of hepcidin in iron metabolism regulation and bacterial infection has been the focus
of recent attention. However, in spite of the growing number of hepcidin genes known from …