Neisseria gonorrhoeae downregulates expression of the human antimicrobial peptide LL-37

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1009-1017

  Bergman, Peter ^a   Johansson, Linda ^b   Asp, Vendela ^b   Plant, Laura ^b   Gudmundsson, Gudmundur H ^c   Jonsson, Ann Beth ^d   Agerberth, Birgitta ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHELICIDIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL CULTURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA LACTAMICA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UTERINE CERVIX EPITHELIUM;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CELL LINE; DOWN-REGULATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA LACTAMICA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA LACTAMICA;

EID: 21344432145     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2005.00530.x     Document Type: Article

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