You are viewing a single comment's thread from:

RE: Stopping Post Surgical Infections With Small Pieces of Protein (Peptides)

in #steemstem7 years ago

Is there any reason why the health practitioners are not administering a combo of the WLBU2 peptide, and the standard penicillin antibiotics? It is always sad to see someone die as a result of infection after a successful surgery.

Sort:  

There are a lot of problems at the moment. They do aggregate, are chemically and physically unstable, have short half-lives in plasma. While their antibiotic activity is top notch and is improving, now is full of engineering problems.

Fosgerau, K., & Hoffmann, T. (2015). Peptide therapeutics: current status and future directions. Drug Discovery Today, 20(1), 122–128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drudis.2014.10.003

Engineering problem is something we would always have. Thanks for the link.

I don't think the peptide has gone through human clinical trials yet.

Ok. That is reasonable then, my primary fear in going under the knife is the post-op complications.