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Antimicrobial Peptides and Innate Immunity

Antimicrobial peptides have been the subject of intense research in the past decades, and are now considered as an essential part of the defense system in bacteria, plants, animals and humans. This book provides an update on these effector molecules of the innate immune system both for researchers w...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Hiemstra, Pieter S. (Editor ), Zaat, Sebastian A. J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basel : Springer Basel : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
Colección:Progress in Inflammation Research,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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505 0 |a Evolution of Antimicrobial Peptides: a View From the Cystine Chapel -- Innate immunity in plants: the role of antimicrobial peptides -- Antimicrobial peptides produced by microorganisms -- LL-37: an immunomodulatory antimicrobial host defence peptide -- Wound Repair and Antimicrobial Peptides -- WAPing out pathogens and disease in the mucosa-roles for SLPI and trappin-2 -- Histatins: multifunctional salivary antimicrobial peptides -- Structure-function relationships of antimicrobial chemokines -- Mechanisms and Significance of Bacterial Resistance to Human Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides -- Antimicrobial peptides and inflammatory bowel disease -- Cystic Fibrosis and Defective Airway Innate Immunity -- Antimicrobial peptides in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -- Host defense peptides: Immune modulation and antimicrobial activity in vivo -- Helping the host - induction of antimicrobial peptides as a novel therapeutic strategy against infections. 
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