Enteric β-defensin: Molecular cloning and characterization of a gene with inducible intestinal epithelial cell expression associated with Cryptosporidium parvum infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1045-1056

  Tarver, Alan P ^a   Clark, Douglas P ^b,e   Diamond, Gill ^a,f   Russell, John P ^a   Erdjument Bromage, Hediye ^c   Tempst, Paul ^c   Cohen, Kenneth S ^a   Jones, Douglas E ^b   Sweeney, Ray W ^b   Wines, Mary ^a   Hwang, Shirley ^a   Bevins, Charles L ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFENSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA LIBRARY; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST RESISTANCE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; TATA BOX;

EID: 15644370080     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.3.1045-1056.1998     Document Type: Article

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