The role of cationic antimicrobial peptides in innate host defences

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 402-410

  Hancock, Robert E W ^a   Diamond, Gill ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WOUND HEALING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATIONS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034283216     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(00)01823-0     Document Type: Review

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