A tetrameric peptide derived from bovine lactoferricin as a potential therapeutic tool for oral squamous cell carcinoma: A preclinical model.

Oral squamous cell carcinoma is the fifth most common epithelial cancer in the world, and its current clinical treatment has both low efficiency and poor selectivity. Cationic amphipathic peptides have been proposed as new drugs for the treatment of different types of cancer. The main goal of the pr...

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Main Authors: Víctor Alfonso Solarte, Paulette Conget, Jean-Paul Vernot, Jaiver Eduardo Rosas, Zuly Jenny Rivera, Javier Eduardo García, Martha Ligia Arango-Rodríguez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5373611?pdf=render