The role of microbicidal lipids in host defense against pathogens and their potential as therapeutic agents

Chemistry and Physics of Lipids

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-11

  Thormar, Halldor ^a   Hilmarsson, Hilmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Breast milk; Lipids; Mucosal membranes; Natural host defense; Skin

Indexed keywords

DECANOIC ACID; FATTY ACID; FATTY ALCOHOL; MILK FAT; MONOACYLGLYCEROL; MONOCAPRIN; SKIN LIPID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BREAST MILK; CLINICAL TRIAL; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LUNG LAVAGE; MOUTH PAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT MUCOSA; REVIEW; SKIN INFECTION; STRATUM CORNEUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; INFECTION; LIPIDS;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 35148837973     PISSN: 00093084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2007.06.220     Document Type: Review

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