Bovine β-defensin gene family: Opportunities to improve animal health?

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 17-28

  Meade, K G ^a   Cormican, P ^a   Narciandi, F ^b   Lloyd, A ^c   O'Farrelly, C ^b  

^a ANIMAL AND GRASSLAND RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c South East Technological University   (Ireland)

Author keywords

defensin; Bovine; Fertility; Immunology

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA DEFENSIN; CYTOKINE; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT; VACCINE;

ANIMAL HEALTH; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BIRD; CATTLE; CATTLE FARMING; CHROMOSOME; COW; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIETARY INTAKE; DNA STRUCTURE; DOG; EXON; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DOSAGE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFECTION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; RNA STRUCTURE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SYNTENY; TAXONOMY;

BOVINE; FERTILITY; IMMUNOLOGY; Β-DEFENSIN;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BETA-DEFENSINS; CATTLE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HEALTH; IMMUNOMODULATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

EID: 84891538103     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00085.2013     Document Type: Review

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