Engineered chimeric peptides with antimicrobial and titanium-binding functions to inhibit biofilm formation on Ti implants
Keywords: Ti; titanium; hBD-3; human β-defensin-3; TBP-l; Ti-binding peptide-l; XPS; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; CLSM; confocal laser scanning microscopy; SEM; scanning electron microscopy; TEM; transmission electron microscopy; qRT-PCR; real-time quantitati