Importance of Tight Junctions in Relation to Skin Barrier Function

Current Problems in Dermatology (Switzerland)

Volumn 49, Issue , 2016, Pages 27-37

  Brandner, Johanna M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE PHOSPHATE; CATHELICIDIN ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE LL 37; CLAUDIN 4; CYTOKERATIN 10; CYTOKERATIN 14; HISTAMINE; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PSORIASIN; TIGHT JUNCTION PROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; CLAUDIN; ZONULA OCCLUDENS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; HUMAN; KERATINOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SKIN; SKIN FLORA; STRATUM CORNEUM; TIGHT JUNCTION; ANIMAL; EPIDERMIS; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PERMEABILITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CLAUDINS; EPIDERMIS; HUMANS; PERMEABILITY; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; TIGHT JUNCTIONS; ZONULA OCCLUDENS PROTEINS;

EID: 84957613954     PISSN: 14215721     EISSN: 16622944     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000441541     Document Type: Article

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