Broad-spectrum activity against bacterial mastitis pathogens and activation of mammary epithelial cells support a protective role of neutrophil cathelicidins in bovine mastitis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1781-1788

  Tomasinsig, Linda ^a   De Conti, Gennyfer ^a   Skerlavaj, Barbara ^a   Piccinini, Renata ^b   Mazzilli, Maria ^b   D'Este, Francesca ^a   Tossi, Alessandro ^c   Zanetti, Margherita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOVINE MYELOID ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE BMAP 27; BOVINE MYELOID ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE BMAP 28; CATHELICIDIN; INDOLICIDIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE BAC5; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST CELL; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CATTLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MASTITIS; MILK; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BACTERIA; CATHELICIDINS; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; DRUG SYNERGISM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; NEUTROPHILS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 77950262727     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01090-09     Document Type: Article

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