Researchers from the University of Queensland have discovered that the poison from the Fraser Island funnel-web spider in eastern Australia contains what could be a life-saving molecule, or peptide.
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Peptide
//ˈpɛptaɪd//
Synonyms for "peptide" (3 found)
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32 translations across 27 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- պեպտիդ noun (class of organic compounds)
Bulgarian
1 entries- пепти́д noun (class of organic compounds)
Catalan
1 entries- pèptid noun (class of organic compounds)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 肽 noun (class of organic compounds)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 肽 noun (class of organic compounds)
Czech
1 entries- peptid noun (class of organic compounds)
Danish
1 entries- peptid noun (class of organic compounds)
Esperanto
1 entries- peptido noun (class of organic compounds)
Finnish
1 entries- peptidi noun (class of organic compounds)
French
1 entries- peptide noun (class of organic compounds)
Galician
1 entries- péptido noun (class of organic compounds)
German
1 entries- Peptid noun (class of organic compounds)
Greek
1 entries- πεπτίδιο noun (class of organic compounds)
Icelandic
1 entries- peptíð noun (class of organic compounds)
Ido
1 entries- peptido noun (class of organic compounds)
Italian
1 entries- peptide noun (class of organic compounds)
Japanese
1 entries- ペプチド noun (class of organic compounds)
Khmer
1 entries- ប៉ិបទីត noun (class of organic compounds)
Korean
2 entries- 펩타이드 noun (class of organic compounds)
- 펩티드 noun (class of organic compounds)
Māori
2 entries- pepetai noun (class of organic compounds)
- pētini noun (class of organic compounds)
Polish
1 entries- peptyd noun (class of organic compounds)
Portuguese
4 entries- peptido noun (class of organic compounds)
- peptídeo noun (class of organic compounds)
- peptídio noun (class of organic compounds)
- péptido noun (class of organic compounds)
Romanian
1 entries- peptidă noun (class of organic compounds)
Russian
1 entries- пепти́д noun (class of organic compounds)
Spanish
1 entries- péptido noun (class of organic compounds)
Swedish
1 entries- peptid noun (class of organic compounds)
Turkish
1 entries- peptit noun (class of organic compounds)
Sample sentences
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Known as Hi1a, the peptide could block so-called death signals sent to cells after a cardiac arrest, when blood flow to the heart is reduced. This results in a lack of oxygen to the heart muscles, causing cells to become acidic, and a message is sent for heart cells to die.
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Jacob said an flu-fighting peptide could be especially useful when vaccines are not available or when circulating viral strains become resistant to current drugs.
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Researchers at Emory University in Atlanta say the secreted peptide — a subunit of a protein chain — kills dozens of flu strains that plague humans. It is effective against H1 viruses, including ones that could cause pandemics.
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