The role of protegrins and other elastase-activated polypeptides in the bactericidal properties of porcine inflammatory fluids

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 3611-3617

  Shi, Jishu ^a   Ganz, Tomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTASE; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE;

EID: 0031870993     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.8.3611-3617.1998     Document Type: Article

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