J. Michael Conlon

TL;DR: Cl cladistic analysis based upon a comparison of the amino acid sequences of antimicrobial peptides indicates a sister-group relationship between R. heckscheri and R. grylio and a close, but less well defined, phylogenetic relationship with R. okaloosae.

TL;DR: Treatment and prevention of acne and periodontal disease are identified as areas in which frog skin antimicrobial peptides might find future applications.

TL;DR: The ability of LVV-hemorphin-7 to inhibit angiotensin-converting enzyme suggests that its formation may be of pathophysiological significance in the regulation of tumor blood flow in certain patients.

TL;DR: This caecilian species, therefore, possesses neurohypophysial peptides that are similar in their structure and distribution to the peptides found in anuran and urodele amphibian orders.

TL;DR: Peptidomic analysis of norepinephrine-stimulated skin secretions led to the identification of host-defense peptides belonging to the magainin, peptide glycine-leucine-amide (PGLa), and caerulein precursor fragment (CPF) families from the tetraploid frogs, Xenopus petersii and Xenopus pygmaeus (Bouchia clawed frog), and the octoploid frog Xenopus lenduensis.