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Part of the book series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology (CT MICROBIOLOGY, volume 306)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Microbes are in our midst soon after birth. Thankfully, the number of harmless (and often beneficial) microbes far outnumber those that would do us harm. Our ability to ward-off pathogens in our environment, including those that can colonize our exterior and/or interior surfaces, depends on the integrative action of the innate and adaptive immunity systems. This volume of CTMI, entitled Antimicrobial Peptides and Human Disease, is dedicated to the role of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in the innate host defense system of homo sapiens.
Keywords
- Toll-like receptors
- bacterial vaginitis
- biofilm formation
- candida vaginitis
- cathelicidins
- cationic antimicrobial peptides
- chemokine production
- cystic fibrosis
- defensins
- endogenous peptide antibiotics
- hepcidin
- host defense peptides
- innate immunity
- iron metabolism
- skin defensive barrier
- trichomoniasis
- tuberculosis
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, 3001 Rollins Research Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA
William M. Shafer
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Antimicrobial Peptides and Human Disease
Editors: William M. Shafer
Series Title: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29916-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-29915-8Published: 23 May 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06756-3Published: 12 February 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-29916-5Published: 05 October 2006
Series ISSN: 0070-217X
Series E-ISSN: 2196-9965
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 266
Topics: Immunology