Skin deep but complex

Nicole Baumgarth () and Charles L. Bevins
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Nicole Baumgarth: Microbiology and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, The Center for Comparative Medicine and Graduate Group in Immunology, University of California
Charles L. Bevins: School of Medicine, and Graduate Group in Immunology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA. clbevins@ucdavis.edu

Nature, 2007, vol. 449, issue 7162, 551-553

Abstract: The antimicrobial peptide LL37 is essential for normal immune responses to infection or tissue injury. But in the autoimmune skin disorder psoriasis, LL37 propagates disease by forming complexes with host DNA.

Date: 2007
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