The frog skin-derived antimicrobial peptide esculentin-1α(1-21)NH2 promotes the migration of human HaCaT keratinocytes in an EGF receptor-dependent manner: A novel promoter of human skin wound healing?

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Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Grazia, Antonio Di ^a   Cappiello, Floriana ^a   Imanishi, Akiko ^b   Mastrofrancesco, Arianna ^c   Picardo, Mauro ^c   Paus, Ralf ^b,d   Mangoni, Maria Luisa ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c SAN GALLICANO DERMATOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; ESCULENTIN 1A; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; STAT3 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMPHIBIAN PROTEIN; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; CAP18 LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE-BINDING PROTEIN; EGFR PROTEIN, HUMAN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; ESCULENTIN PROTEIN, RANA ESCULENTA; STAT3 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANURA; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; KERATINOCYTE; PATHOGENESIS; PROMOTER REGION; SKIN EPITHELIUM; SKIN INJURY; SKIN ULCER; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL;

ANURA; MAMMALIA; PSEUDOMONAS;

AMPHIBIAN PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ANURA; CELL LINE; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; SKIN ULCER; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84936117838     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128663     Document Type: Article

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