beta-Defensins

09/01/2006 - "Ultraviolet A1-induced downregulation of human beta-defensins and interleukin-6 and interleukin-8 correlates with clinical improvement in localized scleroderma."

01/01/2006 - "Contribution of alpha- and beta-defensins to lung function decline and infection in smokers: an association study."
12/01/1999 - "This is a study aimed at the molecular mechanisms of beta-defensins gene expression and it's gene transfer experiments for preventing mucosal infection. "
02/01/2015 - "Depressed production of beta-defensins from mouse splenic dendritic cells following thermal injury and its influence on susceptibility to infection."
01/01/2015 - "Beta-defensins (hBDs) provide antimicrobial and chemotactic defense against bacterial, viral and fungal infections. "
01/01/2010 - "Human beta defensins (HBD)1, HBD2, and HBD3 are key elements of innate immunity that are secreted to neutralize/control the progression of infection. "

10/01/2004 - "Additionally, this study showed that adenovirus-mediated HBD6 expression increases neutrophil recruitment, a recently described attribute of beta-defensins, with mild accentuation of PIV3 activity and inflammation."
01/01/2013 - "Proven association increased expression of alpha-and beta-defensins with activity and a length of inflammation in the intestine at UC."
03/01/2012 - "The production of beta-defensins from granulocytes would allow protection of exposed tissues from microbial invasion avoiding a persistent inflammation, a process that leads to tissue regeneration."
07/01/2009 - "The pathogenesis of chronic inflammation and malignant transformation in the human upper airways: the role of beta-defensins, eNOS, cell proliferation and apoptosis."
04/15/2005 - "Thus during inflammation, epidermal expression of beta-defensins is mediated by at least three different mechanisms."

09/01/2003 - "The data presented in this study provide evidence that airway beta-defensin-2-gene transfer can protect the rat against bacterial infection in vivo, suggesting the beta-defensins as part of the innate host defense system can be of potential applicability."
01/01/2004 - "beta-defensins may contribute to this antibacterial activity and play an important role in renal epithelial resistance to bacterial infections."
12/01/2003 - "Given the antimicrobial function of beta-defensins, they have a putative role in protecting spermatozoa and the epididymis from bacterial infections."
09/18/2002 - "Expression of human beta-defensins 1 and 2 in kidneys with chronic bacterial infection."
04/01/2010 - "The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare concentration of selected human beta-defensins (hBD-1, hBD-2) in cervico-vaginal lavage (CVL), obtained from women with candidiasis, chlamydiasis and other bacterial infections. "

03/01/2011 - "The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of human beta-defensins (hBDs) on oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) proliferation and hBD expression in vitro. "
11/01/2004 - "In the present study, we investigated how alpha-defensin (HNP-1) and beta-defensins (hBD-1, -2, -3) affect cells including primary epithelial cells, fibroblasts and squamous cell carcinoma cell lines, SCC-9 and KB. Cell proliferation was assessed by the direct cell counting and XTT assay. "
11/01/2014 - "Human oral squamous cell carcinoma cells (OSCC) also produce human beta-defensins (HBDs), although their exact function is not clear. "
11/01/2014 - "Surrounding cells affect the gene expression pattern of human beta-defensins in squamous cell carcinoma in vitro."
11/01/2003 - "Different expression patterns of beta-defensins in human squamous cell carcinomas."