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...

Table of Contents:

• Antimicrobial peptides in cutaneous wound healing
• Antimicrobial peptides as endogenous antibacterials and antivirals at the ocular surface
• Function of antimicrobial peptides in lung innate immunity
• Role of antimicrobial peptides to prevent infections in the kidney and urinary tract
• Antimicrobial peptides in the gut
• Metal sequestration: An important contribution of antimicrobial peptides to nutritional immunity
• Regulation of antimicrobial peptide gene expression by vitamin D
• Dichotomous roles of cationic polypeptides targeting HIV
• Antimicrobial peptides in host-defense: functions beyond antimicrobial activity.