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Antimicrobial Peptides - Role in Human Health and Disease

English · Hardback

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This book focuses on the importance of human antimicrobial peptides (AMP) in keeping the host healthy and preventing infectious diseases. The first chapters deal with several examples of the role of AMP in different epithelial organs (skin and wound healing, eye, lung, genito-urinary tract, gut), which are exposed to different kinds of infectious microorganisms and as a result produce different patterns of AMP. Examples of the dysregulation of AMP expression and function promoting infections are discussed. The capacity of AMP to restrict the availability of essential metals to bacteria as an efficient antibacterial strategy in nutritional immunity is discussed in the next chapter. Our current understanding of how vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, influences AMP-expression and how this can affect our health is also addressed. Last but not least, the role of AMP in HIV infection and the immunomodulatory properties of AMP highlight the diverse facets of AMP in host immunity. AMP's specific functions, including in fighting multi-resistant bacteria, suggest that they may offer therapeutic benefits - a question that is discussed in the final chapter.

List of contents

Antimicrobial peptides in cutaneous wound healing.- Antimicrobial peptides as endogenous antibacterials and antivirals at the ocular surface.- Function of antimicrobial peptides in lung innate immunity.- Role of antimicrobial peptides to prevent infections in the kidney and urinary tract.- Antimicrobial peptides in the gut.- Metal sequestration: An important contribution of antimicrobial peptides to nutritional immunity.- Regulation of antimicrobial peptide gene expression by vitamin D.- Dichotomous roles of cationic polypeptides targeting HIV.- Antimicrobial peptides in host-defense: functions beyond antimicrobial activity.

About the author

Jürgen Harder, Jahrgang 1938, studierte Germanistik und Philosophie an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In der DDR war er vorwiegend als Kultur- und Medienwissenschaftler tätig und legte ein Buch über linke Kunsttheorien vor. Nach der Wende wirkte er an einem Forschungsprojekt Kultur der Industriegesellschaft mit.

Summary

This book focuses on the importance of human antimicrobial peptides (AMP) in keeping the host healthy and preventing infectious diseases. The first chapters deal with several examples of the role of AMP in different epithelial organs (skin and wound healing, eye, lung, genito-urinary tract, gut), which are exposed to different kinds of infectious microorganisms and as a result produce different patterns of AMP. Examples of the dysregulation of AMP expression and function promoting infections are discussed. The capacity of AMP to restrict the availability of essential metals to bacteria as an efficient antibacterial strategy in nutritional immunity is discussed in the next chapter. Our current understanding of how vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, influences AMP-expression and how this can affect our health is also addressed. Last but not least, the role of AMP in HIV infection and the immunomodulatory properties of AMP highlight the diverse facets of AMP in host immunity. AMP’s specific functions, including in fighting multi-resistant bacteria, suggest that they may offer therapeutic benefits – a question that is discussed in the final chapter.

Product details

Assisted by Jürge Harder (Editor), Jürgen Harder (Editor), Schröder (Editor), Schröder (Editor), Jens-M. Schröder (Editor)
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.2016
 
EAN 9783319241975
ISBN 978-3-31-924197-5
No. of pages 158
Dimensions 162 mm x 245 mm x 11 mm
Weight 392 g
Illustrations VI, 158 p. 10 illus. in color.
Series Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases
Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine

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