Antimicrobial Peptides and Human Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Shafer, William M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 306
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Biomedicine.

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Table of Contents:

• Paneth Cell ?-Defensin Synthesis and Function
• Immunomodulatory Properties of Defensins and Cathelicidins
• Host Antimicrobial Defence Peptides in Human Disease
• Antimicrobial Peptides: An Essential Component of the Skin Defensive Barrier
• Antimicrobial Peptides Versus Invasive Infections
• Antimicrobial Peptides in the Airway
• Hepcidin—A Peptide Hormone at the Interface of Innate Immunity and Iron Metabolism
• Innate Host Defense of Human Vaginal and CervicalMucosae
• Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Resistance to Antimicrobial Peptides
• Bacterial Evasion of Antimicrobial Peptides by Biofilm Formation.