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Rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) mucosal antimicrobial peptides are close homologues of human molecules
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Production of beta-defensin antimicrobial peptides by maxillary sinus mucosa
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Salt-independent abnormality of antimicrobial activity in cystic fibrosis airway surface fluid
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New models of the tracheal airway define the glandular contribution to airway surface fluid and electrolyte composition
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Defensin antimicrobial peptides in the oral cavity
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Human beta-defensin 4: a novel inducible peptide with a specific salt-sensitive spectrum of antimicrobial activity
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Bacterial infections and inflammation in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients
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Participation of mammalian defensins and cathelicidins in anti-microbial immunity: receptors and activities of human defensins and cathelicidin (LL-37)
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Discovery of new human beta-defensins using a genomics-based approach
GENE
Localized antimicrobial peptide expression in human gingiva
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CXC chemokine receptor 2 contributes to host defense in murine urinary tract infection
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Detection of beta-defensins secreted by human oral epithelial cells
JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGICAL METHODS
Staphylococcus aureus resistance to human defensins and evasion of neutrophil killing via the novel virulence factor MprF is based on modification ofmembrane lipids with L-lysine
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A novel mouse beta-defensin, mBD-6, predominantly expressed in skeletal muscle
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Inhibition of hBD-3, but not hBD-1 and hBD-2, mRNA expression by corticosteroids
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Expression of human beta-defensin 1 mRNA in human palatine tonsil
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Secretion of microbicidal alpha-defensins by intestinal Paneth cells in response to bacteria
NATURE IMMUNOLOGY
Tissue-specific inducible expression of antimicrobial peptide genes in Drosophila surface epithelia
IMMUNITY
Synergistic and additive killing by antimicrobial factors found in human airway surface liquid
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Peritoneal defenses against infection: Winning the battle but losing the war?
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Expression of mammalian defensin genes
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Human antimicrobial peptides: Analysis and application
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Structural analysis of human beta-defensin-1 and its significance in urinary tract infection
NEPHRON
Expression of the antimicrobial peptide, human beta-defensin 1, in duct cells of minor salivary glands and detection in saliva
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Expression of human alpha-defensin 5 (HD5) mRNA in nasal and bronchial epithelial cells
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Engineered salt-insensitive alpha-defensins with end-to-end circularized structures
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A novel murine beta-defensin expressed in tongue, esophagus, and trachea
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Thrombocidins, microbicidal proteins from human flood platelets, are C-terminal deletion products of CXC chemokines
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Bactericidal activity of mammalian cathelicidin-derived peptides
INFECTION AND IMMUNITY
Inducible expression of human beta-defensin 2 by Fusobacterium nucleatum in oral epithelial cells: Multiple signaling pathways and role of commensal bacteria in innate immunity and the epithelial barrier
INFECTION AND IMMUNITY
Differential expression of human alpha- and beta-defensins mRNA in gastrointestinal epithelia
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Expression of human beta-defensin 1 mRNA in human nasal mucosa
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Epithelial antimicrobial peptides: innate local host response elements
CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES
Scratching the surface - Inroads to a better understanding of airway host defense
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Activity of abundant antimicrobials of the human airway
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Epithelial defensins impair adenoviral infection: Implication for adenovirus-mediated gene therapy
HUMAN GENE THERAPY
Efficient killing of inhaled bacteria in Delta F508 mice: role of airway surface liquid composition
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Expression of beta-defensin genes by human salivary glands
ORAL MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
A 450-kb contig of defensin genes on human chromosome 8p23
GENE
Defensins: Key players or bystanders in infection, injury, and repair in the lung?
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A cyclic antimicrobial peptide produced in primate leukocytes by the ligation of two truncated alpha-defensins
SCIENCE
Phylogenetic perspectives in innate immunity
SCIENCE
Antimicrobial peptides as mediators of epithelial host defense
PEDIATRIC RESEARCH
Expression and regulation of the human beta-defensins hBD-1 and hBD-2 in intestinal epithelium
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Neutrophil antibacterial peptides, multifunctional effector molecules in the mammalian immune system
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Cloning and expression of bovine neutrophil beta-defensins - Biosynthetic profile during neutrophilic maturation and localization of mature peptide to novel cytoplasmic dense granules
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Cloning and characterization of the gene for a new epithelial beta-defensin - Genomic structure, chromosomal localization, and evidence for its constitutive expression
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Molecular cloning and characterization of rat genes encoding homologues ofhuman beta-defensins
INFECTION AND IMMUNITY
Human B-defensin-1 mRNA is transcribed in tympanic membrane and adjacent auditory canal epithelium
INFECTION AND IMMUNITY
Mouse beta-defensin 3 is an inducible antimicrobial peptide expressed in the epithelia of multiple organs
INFECTION AND IMMUNITY
Production of beta-defensin antimicrobial peptides by the oral mucosa and salivary glands
INFECTION AND IMMUNITY
Differential expression of caprine beta-defensins in digestive and respiratory tissues
INFECTION AND IMMUNITY
Defensins and innate host defence of the gastrointestinal tract
GUT
Elafin (elastase-specific inhibitor) has anti-microbial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative respiratory pathogens
FEBS LETTERS
Epithelial peptide antibiotics
BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY
EPITHELIAL ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES - REVIEW AND SIGNIFICANCE FOR ORAL APPLICATIONS
Critical reviews in oral biology and medicine
BETA-DEFENSINS - ENDOGENOUS ANTIBIOTICS OF THE INNATE HOST-DEFENSE RESPONSE
Clinical immunology and immunopathology (Print)
ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES - AN EMERGING CONCEPT IN CUTANEOUS BIOLOGY
Journal of investigative dermatology
EXPRESSION OF THE PEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC HUMAN BETA-DEFENSIN-1 IN CULTURED GINGIVAL EPITHELIAL-CELLS AND GINGIVAL TISSUE
Infection and immunity