Butyrate enhances disease resistance of chickens by inducing antimicrobial host defense peptide gene expression.

Host defense peptides (HDPs) constitute a large group of natural broad-spectrum antimicrobials and an important first line of immunity in virtually all forms of life. Specific augmentation of synthesis of endogenous HDPs may represent a promising antibiotic-alternative approach to disease control. I...

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Auteurs principaux: Lakshmi T Sunkara, Mallika Achanta, Nicole B Schreiber, Yugendar R Bommineni, Gan Dai, Weiyu Jiang, Susan Lamont, Hyun S Lillehoj, Ali Beker, Robert G Teeter, Guolong Zhang
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Langue:EN
Publié: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/cff3b215220048be9d3d3affffe0ec3d
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