Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (39970293, 39670305) and China Medical Board of New York Inc(98-681).
AIM: To examine the stimulatory effect of bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) cell wall components on human βdefensin-1 (hBD-1) gene expression and analyze the response element in the 5’-flanking region of the gene. METH...