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Suppressed AMP production has been associated with increased susceptibility to microbial insults and the pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis.</jats:p><jats:p>This review highlights recent observations on the expression and role of AMPs, particularly the AMPs cathelicidin and β‐defensin, in healthy and diseased skin.</jats:p>","journal":"Veterinary Dermatology","year":2013,"id":609449,"datarank":0.6610078870896381,"base_score":4.406719247264253,"endowment":4.406719247264253,"self_citation_contribution":0.6610078870896381,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.6610078870896381,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":81,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":249754,"name":"Richard L. 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