... activities of many hostdefense peptides, probably because of the presence of certain salts, bivalent cations, and peptide- binding pro-teins. To examine the effect of serum on antibacterialefficacy of ... broadrange of bacteria, fungi, and viruses, including resist-ant strains [1,2]. Because of nonspecific membrane-lyticactivities, antimicrobial peptides have a low tendencyto develop resistance, ... neutral-ization of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), chemotaxis of immune cells, regulation of dendritic cell differenti-ation, induction of angiogenesis and re-epithelializa-tion, and modulation of cytokine and...