The contribution of skin antimicrobial peptides to the system of innate immunity in anurans

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 343, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 201-212

  Conlon, J Michael ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptide; Anura; Chytridiomycosis; Frog skin; Host defense; Ranavirus

Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ALPHA HELIX; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; FROG; HOST RESISTANCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SKIN SECRETION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TOAD;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI; RANAVIRUS;

EID: 79151481443     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-010-1014-4     Document Type: Review

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