Defensins: Key players or bystanders in infection, injury, and repair in the lung?☆☆☆

• 1 December 1999
• journal article
• review article
• Published by Elsevier in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
• Vol. 104  (6) , 1131-1138
• https://doi.org/10.1016/s0091-6749(99)70004-7

Abstract

Keywords

• DEFENSINS
• ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES
• NEUTROPHILS
• EPITHELIAL CELLS
• INFECTION
• INNATE IMMUNITY
• HOST DEFENSE
• IMMUNE RESPONSE
• INFLAMMATORY LUNG DISEASE
• Α1-PI:
• Α1-PROTEINASE INHIBITOR
• BAL:
• BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE
• COPD:
• CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE
• HBD:
• HUMAN Β-DEFENSIN
• HD:
• HUMAN DEFENSIN
• HNP: