Nature Medicine
- 12, 607 - 608 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nm0606-607
Defending the epithelium
Michael Zasloff
Michael Zasloff is in the Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC 20007, USA. maz5@georgetown.edu
kanjiTwo studies examine the microbe-fighting peptides that keep infection at bay in the urinary tract and the colon. In the urinary tract, such peptides are deployed with lightning speed, and in the colon a short-chain fatty acid induces the peptides and fends off dysentery caused by Shigella species (pages 636 – 641).
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