Downregulation of bactericidal peptides in enteric infections: A novel immune escape mechanism with bacterial DNA as a potential regulator

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Medicine, Dermatology, Molecular Biology +17

The human antimicrobial and chemotactic peptides LL-37 and α-defensins are expressed by specific lymphocyte and monocyte populations

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Life Sciences, Immunology, Microbiology +12

The peptide antibiotic LL-37/hCAP-18 is expressed in epithelia of the human lung where it has broad antimicrobial activity at the airway surface

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Life Sciences, Immunology, Innate Immunity +14

Lipid A Acylation and Bacterial Resistance against Vertebrate Antimicrobial Peptides

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Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Microbiology +14

Expression and regulation of the human beta-defensins hBD-1 and hBD-2 in intestinal epithelium.

Deborah A. O′Neil, Edith Porter, Dirk Elewaut et al. · PubMed · 1999 · 597 citations

Life Sciences, Immunology, Microbiology +17