Defensins as anti-inflammatory compounds and mucosal adjuvants

Defensins attenuate cytokine responses yet enhance antibody responses toPorphyromonas gingivalisadhesins in mice

(2009) Karl G Kohlgraf et al.   Future Microbiology

Susceptibility to Infectious Diseases Based on Antimicrobial Peptide Production

(2009) B. Rivas-Santiago et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Host Defense Peptides in the Oral Cavity and the Lung: Similarities and Differences

(2009) G. Diamond et al.   JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH

Dying and Necrotic Neutrophils Are Anti-Inflammatory Secondary to the Release of  -Defensins

(2009) K. Miles et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Immunomodulation by duck defensin, Apl_AvBD2: In vitro dendritic cell immunoreceptor (DCIR) mRNA suppression, and B- and T-lymphocyte chemotaxis

(2009) Soja Saghar Soman et al.   MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

Discovery of Anas platyrhynchos avian β-defensin 2 (Apl_AvBD2) with antibacterial and chemotactic functions

(2009) Soja Saghar Soman et al.   MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

Antimicrobial peptides of the oral cavity

(2009) Sven-Ulrik Gorr   PERIODONTOLOGY 2000

T-RFLP-basedmcrAgene analysis of methanogenic archaea in association with oral infections and evidence of a novelMethanobrevibacterphylotype

(2009) M. E. Vianna et al.   Oral microbiology and immunology

Reawakening Retrocyclins: Ancestral Human Defensins Active Against HIV-1

(2009) Nitya Venkataraman et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Comprehensive Defensin Assay for Saliva

(2008) Michael S. Gardner et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Nuclear hBD-1 accumulation in malignant salivary gland tumours

(2008) M Wenghoefer et al.   BMC CANCER

Human α-Defensins Inhibit Clostridium difficile Toxin B

(2008) Torsten Giesemann et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Human β-defensin 3 binds to hemagglutinin B (rHagB), a non-fimbrial adhesin from Porphyromonas gingivalis , and attenuates a pro-inflammatory cytokine response

(2008) Lindsey C Pingel et al.   IMMUNOLOGY AND CELL BIOLOGY

Human  - and  -Defensins Bind to Immobilized Adhesins from Porphyromonas gingivalis

(2008) D. E. Dietrich et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

APD2: the updated antimicrobial peptide database and its application in peptide design

(2008) Guangshun Wang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Analysis of neutrophil-derived antimicrobial peptides in gingival crevicular fluid suggests importance of cathelicidin LL-37 in the innate immune response against periodontogenic bacteria

(2008) M. Puklo et al.   Oral microbiology and immunology