Does the alligator blood contain antibiotics?

How strange, as it may sound, alligatory blood actually contains antibiotic ingredients called peptides and hopes that one day these ingredients can be synthesized for the treatment of many human diseases and bacterial infections. There is already preliminary evidence that some antibiotic peptides found in the alligator's blood can kill bacteria resistant to drugs such as meticillin-resistant stafylococcus aureus or MRSA and even HIV associated with AIDS. The recently approved diabetes cure known as Byetta is largely based, for example, on the chemical structure of the saliva Gila Monster. The secretion of frogs and other amphibians were also studied for their unique healing properties. The biologists who observed the behavior of alligators have noticed a formal aligator blood study, came from the observation of alligators in the wild.

Although alligators often dealt with violent territorial behavior and harmful encounters with other animals, very few of them sometimes developed fatal infections frominjured. It seemed that even digestion most of the time in swamps infested with bacteria did not affect the healing process. Such natural resistance to bacterial infection is not rare in wild animals, but the alligator's blood seemed to be particularly resistant.

Alligatory blood samples were eventually collected for serious scientific investigation and the results were surprised by many scientists. Concentrated samples of human serum and concentrated alligator serum samples were exposed to 23 bacteria strains, including who is responsible for MRSA. The serum of human blood was killed by 8 of the 23 cultures of bacteria. Alligator blood serum was killed by all 23 bacterial cultures, including MRSA. It also significantly reduced the overall level of HIV in a sample of infected human blood.

Given the promising results of these tests, scientists hope to synthesize the chemical structure of the alligator blood peptides and develop a similar andntibiotics for people. At present, the therapeutic level of alligatory blood would be too toxic to humans, but there is a hope that in a suitable synthetic version it could be made as a cream for local infections and as a pill for systemic bacterial infections in the next decade.