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Isolation of human β-defensin-4 in lung tissue and its increase in lower respiratory tract infection

BACKGROUND: Human β-defensin-4 (hBD-4), a new member of the β-defensin family, was discovered by an analysis of the genomic sequence. The objective of this study was to clarify hBD-4 expression in human lung tissue, along with the inducible expression in response to infectious stimuli, localization,...

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Autores principales: Yanagi, Shigehisa, Ashitani, Jun-ichi, Ishimoto, Hiroshi, Date, Yukari, Mukae, Hiroshi, Chino, Naoyoshi, Nakazato, Masamitsu
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1298335/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16269090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-6-130