Antimicrobial Peptides Role in Human Health and Disease /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Harder, Jürgen (Editor), Schröder, Jens-M (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Microbiology.; Biomedicine.

This book focuses on the importance of human antimicrobial peptides (AMP) in keeping the host healthy and preventing infectious diseases. The first chapters deal with several examples of the role of AMP in different epithelial organs (skin and wound healing, eye, lung, genito-urinary tract, gut), wh...