Isolation, antimicrobial activities, and primary structures of hamster neutrophil defensins

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 4444-4449

  Mak, Paweł ^a   Wójcik, Kinga ^a   Thogersen, Ida B ^b   Dubin, Adam ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFENSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; HAMSTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0029859350     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.11.4444-4449.1996     Document Type: Article

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