Roles of human β-defensins in innate immune defense at the ocular surface: Arming and alarming corneal and conjunctival epithelial cells

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-73

  Garreis, Fabian ^a,c   Schlorf, Thomas ^a   Worlitzsch, Dieter ^a   Steven, Philipp ^b   Bräuer, Lars ^a   Jäger, Kristin ^a   Paulsen, Friedrich P ^a,c  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human defensins; Mouse defensins; Ocular surface; Proinflammatory cytokines; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

BETA DEFENSIN 1; BETA DEFENSIN 2; BETA DEFENSIN 3; BETA DEFENSIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; CELL CULTURE; CELL STIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONJUNCTIVA EPITHELIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; LACRIMAL GLAND; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUPERNATANT; TEAR FILM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BETA-DEFENSINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CONJUNCTIVA; CORNEA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANIMAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MURINAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 77954216239     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-010-0713-y     Document Type: Article

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