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Nature Medicine  8, 1359 - 1360 (2002)
doi:10.1038/nm1202-1359

Skin antibiotics get in the loop

Elizabeth Kopp1 & Ruslan Medzhitov2

1  Section of Immunobiology, Yale University New Haven, Connecticut, USA

2  Howard Hughes Medical Institute New Haven, Connecticut, USA ruslan@biomed.med.yale.edu

Epithelial peptides called defensins can kill microbes directly. New data reveal another function for some of these host antibiotics—enhancement of the innate immune response.

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