| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 263 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
Current topics in microbiology and immunology, 0070-217X ; 306 |
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Current topics in microbiology and immunology ; 306.
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| Contents |
Paneth cell [alpha]-defensin synthesis and function / A.J. Ouellette -- Immunomodulatory properties of defensins and cathelicidins / D.M.E. Bowdish, D.J. Davidson, and R.E.W. Hancock -- Host antimicrobial defence peptides in human disease / B. Agerberth and G.H. Guðmundsson -- Antimicrobial peptides: an essential component of the skin defensive barrier / M.H. Braff and R.L. Gallo -- Antimicrobial peptides versus invasive infections / M.R. Yeaman and A.S. Bayer -- Antimicrobial peptides in the airway / D.M. Laube [and others] -- Hepcidin: a peptide hormone at the interface of innate immunity and iron metabolism / T. Ganz -- Innate host defense of human vaginal and cervical mucosae / A.M. Cole -- Molecular mechanisms of bacterial resistance to antimicrobial peptides / D. Kraus and A. Peschel -- Bacterial evasion of antimicrobial peptides by biofilm formation / M. Otto |
| Summary |
Microbes are in our midst soon after birth. Thankfully, the number of harmless (and often beneficial) microbes far outnumber those that would do us harm. Our ability to ward-off pathogens in our environment, including those that can colonize our exterior and/or interior surfaces, depends on the integrative action of the innate and adaptive immunity systems. This volume of CTMI, entitled Antimicrobial Peptides and Human Disease, is dedicated to the role of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in the innate host defense system of homo sapiens |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
Springer e-books |
| Subject |
Peptide antibiotics.
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Anti-infective agents.
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Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides -- physiology
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Immunity, Innate -- physiology
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Anti-Infective Agents
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MEDICAL -- Pharmacology.
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Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides.
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Peptide antibiotics.
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Biomédecine.
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Sciences de la vie.
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Anti-infective agents
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Peptide antibiotics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shafer, William M.
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| ISBN |
9783540299165 |
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3540299165 |
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3540299157 |
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9783540299158 |
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661063498X |
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9786610634989 |
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