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✍ Johan D. Heilborn; Margareta Frohm Nilsson; Clara I. Chamorro Jimenez; Bengt San 📂 Article 📅 2004 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 French ⚖ 537 KB

## Abstract Human cathelicidin antimicrobial protein hCAP18/LL‐37 is an effector molecule of the nonspecific innate immune system. hCAP18/LL‐37 is present in leukocytes and is expressed in skin and other epithelia, where it is upregulated in association with inflammation and injury. In addition, an