Production of β-defensin antimicrobial peptides by the oral mucosa and salivary glands

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2740-2745

  Mathews, Michael ^a   Jia, Hong Peng ^a   Guthmiller, Janet M ^a   Losh, Garrett ^a   Graham, Scott ^a   Johnson, Georgia K ^a   Tack, Brian F ^a   McCray Jr , Paul B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; DEFENSIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MESSENGER RNA;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFLAMMATION; KERATINOCYTE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUTH MUCOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SALIVARY GLAND;

EID: 0344483901     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.6.2740-2745.1999     Document Type: Article

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