Deficiency of dermcidin-derived antimicrobial peptides in sweat of patients with atopic dermatitis correlates with an impaired innate defense of human skin in vivo

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 174, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 8003-8010

  Rieg, Siegbert ^a   Steffen, Heiko ^a   Seeber, Silke ^b   Humeny, Andreas ^b   Kalbacher, Hubert ^a   Dietz, Klaus ^a   Garbe, Claus ^a   Schittek, Birgit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DERMCIDIN; DERMCIDIN DERIVATIVE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECURRENT INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURFACE ENHANCED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; SWEAT GLAND; SWEATING; VIRAL SKIN DISEASE;

EID: 20444384801     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.174.12.8003     Document Type: Article

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