Title : Vitamin D nutritional status and vitamin D regulated antimicrobial peptides in serum and pleural fluid of patients with infectious and noninfectious pleural effusions.

Pub. Date : 2016 Jul 8

PMID : 27392908






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1 BACKGROUND: Vitamin D and vitamin D dependent antimicrobial peptides such as Cathelicidin (LL-37) and beta-defensin 2 have an important role in innate and adaptative immunity, but their role in pleural effusions has not been studied before. Vitamin D cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide Homo sapiens
2 BACKGROUND: Vitamin D and vitamin D dependent antimicrobial peptides such as Cathelicidin (LL-37) and beta-defensin 2 have an important role in innate and adaptative immunity, but their role in pleural effusions has not been studied before. Vitamin D cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide Homo sapiens