Differential antimicrobial peptide gene expression patterns during early chicken embryological development

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 516-524

  Meade, Kieran G ^a   Higgs, Rowan ^b   Lloyd, Andrew T ^a   Giles, Seamus ^c   O'Farrelly, Cliona ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Cathelicidin; Embryonic development; In ovo; Defensin

Indexed keywords

BETA DEFENSIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 8; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 15; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 21; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; DNA SYNTHESIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; SPONDIAS PURPUREA;

EID: 58649084137     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2008.10.003     Document Type: Article

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