Antimicrobial peptides are present in immune and host defense cells of the human respiratory and gastroinstestinal tracts

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 324, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 449-456

  Wah, Jenny ^b   Wellek, Anne ^a   Frankenberger, Marion ^c   Unterberger, Pia ^b   Welsch, Ulrich ^b   Bals, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptide; Cathelicidin; Defensin; Gastrointestinal tract; Host defense; Human; Innate immunity; Lung

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CATHELICIDIN; CATHELICIDIN ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE LL 37; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; CD74 ANTIGEN; DEFENSIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEIN HBD 1; PROTEIN HBD 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DUODENUM; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MUCOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; COLON; DUODENUM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LUNG; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MACROPHAGES; NEUTROPHILS; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33646340471     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-005-0127-7     Document Type: Article

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