Schonwetter and his colleagues added the probes to sections of cow tongue and found that LAP is produced all over the tongue's upper surface, except in the taste buds. (newscientist.com)
Last March, Zasloff and his colleagues detected a microbe - killing peptide on cow tongues. (discovermagazine.com)
Zasloff inspected cow tongues bearing slight wounds from grazing and found, sure enough, that wherever tissue was injured, the cells on the surface of the tongue were making more peptides. (discovermagazine.com)