Participation of mammalian defensins and cathelicidins in anti-microbial immunity: Receptors and activities of human defensins and cathelicidin (LL-37)

Journal of Leukocyte Biology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 691-697

  Yang, De ^a   Chertov, Oleg ^a   Oppenheim, Joost J ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b DBS   (United States)

Author keywords

CCR6; Chemotaxis; Dendritic cells; FPRL1; Keratinocytes; Macrophages; Phagocytic leukocytes

Indexed keywords

CATHELICIDIN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR6; DEFENSIN; FORMYLPEPTIDE; INTERLEUKIN 8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; HOST CELL; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MAMMAL; MAST CELL DEGRANULATION; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CARRIER PROTEINS; DEFENSINS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; RECEPTORS, FORMYL PEPTIDE; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE;

EID: 0034998629     PISSN: 07415400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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