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Sebum Free Fatty Acids Enhance the Innate Immune Defense of Human Sebocytes by Upregulating β-Defensin-2 Expression

Various sebum free fatty acids (FFAs) have shown antibacterial activity against a broad range of Gram-positive bacteria, resulting in the suggestion that they are accountable, at least partially, for the direct antimicrobial activity of the skin surface. In this study, we examined the effects of seb...

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Main Authors: Nakatsuji, Teruaki, Kao, Mandy C., Zhang, Liangfang, Zouboulis, Christos C., Gallo, Richard L, Huang, Chun-Ming
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2009
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3057125/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20032992
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/jid.2009.384
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