Antimicrobial Peptides Role in Human Health and Disease
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 heali
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Jürgen Harder Jens-M. Schröder Editors
Antimicrobial Peptides Role in Human Health and Disease
Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases Series editors Stefan H. Kaufmann Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany Andrew A. Mercer Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand Olaf Weber Bonn, Germany
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Jürgen Harder • Jens-M. Schröder Editors
Antimicrobial Peptides Role in Human Health and Disease
Editors Jürgen Harder Department of Dermatology University-Hospital Schleswig-Holstein Campus Kiel Kiel Germany
Jens-M. Schröder Department of Dermatology University-Hospital Schleswig-Holstein Campus Kiel Kiel Germany
Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases ISBN 978-3-319-24197-5 ISBN 978-3-319-24199-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-24199-9
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Contents
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Antimicrobial Peptides in Cutaneous Wound Healing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Ole E. Sørensen
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Antimicrobial Peptides as Endogenous Antibacterials and Antivirals at the Ocular Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Fabian Garreis, Martin Schicht, and Friedrich Paulsen
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Function of Antimicrobial Peptides in Lung Innate Immunity . . . . . . 33 Frederik Seiler, Robert Bals, and Christoph Beisswenger
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Antimicrobial Peptides: Maintaining Sterility of the Urinary Tract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Brian Becknell and John David Spencer
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Antimicrobial Peptides in the Gut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Maureen J. Ostaff, Eduard F. Stange, and
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