Presence of bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein in human and rat skin

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-60

  Takahashi, Masae ^a   Horiuchi, Yoshitaka ^a   Tezuka, Tadashi ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bactericidal permeability increasing protein; Inner root sheath; Lipopolysaccharide binding protein

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERICIDAL PERMEABILITY INCREASING PROTEIN; BATERICIDAL PERMEABILITY INCREASING PROTEIN CONJUGATED KEYOL LIMPET HEMOCYANINE ANTIBODY; KEYHOLE LIMPET HEMOCYANIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL CULTURE; CYTOPLASM; CYTOTOXICITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HAIR FOLLICLE; HAIR ROOT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SCALP; SKIN; SKIN INFECTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BINDING SITES; BLOOD BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BLOOD PROTEINS; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SCALP; SKIN;

EID: 0842329612     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-6705.2004.00116.x     Document Type: Article

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