Structure and mapping of the human β-defensin HBD-2 gene and its expression at sites of inflammation

Gene

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 237-244

  Liu, Lide ^a   Wang, Lina ^b   Jia, Hong Peng ^c   Zhao, Chengquan ^a   Heng, Henry H Q ^d   Schutte, Brian C ^c   McCray Jr , Paul B ^c   Ganz, Tomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Chromosome 8p23; Epithelia; Host defense

Indexed keywords

DEFENSIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 8P; EXON; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALPHA-DEFENSINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-DEFENSINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEFENSINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

EID: 0032548181     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00480-6     Document Type: Article

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