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Abstract
Defensins are broad-spectrum antimicrobial peptides that are abundant in human, rat, and rabbit neutrophils. We now report that neutrophils from nine strains of mice lacked appreciable defensin content. Mice may therefore be imperfect experimental surrogates for humans or rats in models of infection in which neutrophil function is significant.Entities:
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Year: 1992 PMID: 1639513 PMCID: PMC257335 DOI: 10.1128/iai.60.8.3446-3447.1992
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infect Immun ISSN: 0019-9567 Impact factor: 3.441