β-defensins: Endogenous antibiotics of the innate host defense response

Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 221-225

  Diamond, Gill ^a   Bevins, Charles L ^b  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFENSIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; CHROMOSOME MAP; EPITHELIUM; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION; LEUKOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0032168228     PISSN: 00901229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/clin.1998.4587     Document Type: Review

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