Defensins: Antimicrobial peptides of innate immunity

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 710-720

  Ganz, Tomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFENSIN;

CANDIDA; EPITHELIUM CELL; GRANULOCYTE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLOSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DEFENSINS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0141799911     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1180     Document Type: Review

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