Angiogenins: A new class of microbicidal proteins involved in innate immunity

Nature Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 269-273

  Hooper, Lora V ^a   Stappenbeck, Thaddeus S ^a   Hong, Chieu V ^a   Gordon, Jeffrey I ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIN; RIBONUCLEASE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE FLORA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANETH CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDES; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PANETH CELLS; RIBONUCLEASE, PANCREATIC;

EID: 0037340434     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni888     Document Type: Article

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