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Increased Susceptibility to Pulmonary Pseudomonas Infection in Splunc1 Knockout Mice
19 Sept 2013
Abstract excerpt
The airway epithelium is the first line of host defense against pathogens. The short palate, lung, and nasal epithelium clone (SPLUNC)1 protein is secreted in respiratory tracts and is a member of the bacterial/permeability increasing (BPI) fold-containing protein family, which shares structural similarities with BPI-like proteins. On the basis of its homology with BPIs and restricted expression of SPLUNC1 in...
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