Multifunctional cationic host defence peptides and their clinical applications

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 2161-2176

  Yeung, Amy T Y ^a   Gellatly, Shaan L ^a   Hancock, Robert E W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Chemoattractant; Host defence peptide; Immunity; Immunomodulatory; Infection; Inflammation; Therapeutics

Indexed keywords

ALPHA DEFENSIN; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AP 214; BETA DEFENSIN; BUFORIN IIB; CATHELICIDIN; CATHELICIDIN ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE LL 37; CATHELICIDIN BMAP 18; CATHELICIDIN PMAP 23; DELMITIDE; DERMASEPTIN; GHRELIN; HB 1345; HEPTAPEPTIDE 7; IB 367; IMX 942; ISEGANAN; MELITTIN; MX 226; NISIN; OMEGANAN; OMIGANAN; OP 145; OPEBACAN; PAC 113; PEXIGANAN ACETATE; PMX 30063; TACHYPLESIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE; XOMA 629;

ACNE; ACNE VULGARIS; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INHIBITION; CATHETER INFECTION; CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIABETIC FOOT; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENDOTOXEMIA; ENTERITIS; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMPETIGO; INFECTION PREVENTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; REVIEW; ROSACEA; SEPSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; WOUND HEALING;

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; IMMUNOMODULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79960936612     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-011-0710-x     Document Type: Review

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