Expression of human beta defensin (HBD-1 and HBD-2) mRNA in nasal epithelia of adult cystic fibrosis patients, healthy individuals, and individuals with acute cold

Respiration

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 46-51

  Dauletbaev, Nurlan ^a   Gropp, Roswitha ^a   Frye, Michaela ^a   Loitsch, Stefan ^a   Wagner, Thomas Otto Friedrich ^a   Bargon, Joachim ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Cystic fibrosis; mRNA expression; Nasal epithelium

Indexed keywords

BETA DEFENSIN; INTERLEUKIN 8; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG FIBROSIS; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; NOSE MUCOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-DEFENSINS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; COMMON COLD; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NASAL LAVAGE FLUID; NASAL MUCOSA; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0036181673     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000049369     Document Type: Article

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