Defensins
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Subject Areas on Research
- Amniotic fluid defensins: potential markers of subclinical intrauterine infection.
- Association between elevated neutrophil defensin levels and endometritis.
- Bacterial vaginosis and vaginal fluid defensins during pregnancy.
- Bacterial vaginosis, vaginal fluid neutrophil defensins, and preterm birth.
- Comparative genomic study of arachnid immune systems indicates loss of beta-1,3-glucanase-related proteins and the immune deficiency pathway.
- Complex environmental drivers of immunity and resistance in malaria mosquitoes.
- Defensins impair phagocytic killing by neutrophils in biomaterial-related infection.
- Defensins in innate antiviral immunity.
- Defensins: natural anti-HIV peptides.
- Dendritic epidermal T cells regulate skin antimicrobial barrier function.
- Fitness benefits of systemic acquired resistance during Hyaloperonospora parasitica infection in Arabidopsis thaliana.
- Innate immunity and the lung: defense at the interface between host and environment.
- Levels of antimicrobial molecules defensin and lactoferrin are elevated in the cerebrospinal fluid of children with meningitis.
- Mucosal human defensins 5 and 6 antagonize the anti-HIV activity of candidate polyanion microbicides.
- NPR1 modulates cross-talk between salicylate- and jasmonate-dependent defense pathways through a novel function in the cytosol.
- Neisseria gonorrhoeae-induced human defensins 5 and 6 increase HIV infectivity: role in enhanced transmission.
- Neutrophil activation in preeclampsia. Are defensins and lactoferrin elevated in preeclamptic patients?
- Neutrophil granule products: can they identify subclinical chorioamnionitis in patients with preterm premature rupture of membranes?
- Plasma concentrations of defensins and lactoferrin in children with severe sepsis.
- Proteomic biomarkers of intra-amniotic inflammation: relationship with funisitis and early-onset sepsis in the premature neonate.
- Toll-like receptors, innate immunity and lung transplantation.