More recent results have enriched the list of tachyplesin-sensitive cells, demonstrating that the peptide also significantly inhibited proliferation and induced apoptosis in non-small cell lung cancer A549 and H460 cells, as confirmed by the increase in cleaved PARP and cleaved caspase-8 and the decrease in total BID and caspase-8. Here, CASP8 is linked to non-small cell lung carcinoma.