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ReviewJournal of innate immunity2012

The multiple facets of dermcidin in cell survival and host defense.

Birgit Schittek

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Review in Journal of innate immunity, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
58citing papers in PubMed
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

58 citing papers in PubMed, 104 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Sweat components as a promising monitoring tool for systemic diseases.The journal of physiological sciences : JPS · 2026
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  9. Dermcidin has antiviral activity and protects against influenza.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  11. Pro-Dermcidin as an Emerging Regulator of Innate Immunity in Sepsis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Birgit SchittekDepartment of Dermatology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. birgit.schittek@med.uni-tuebingen.de
University of Tübingen · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Eccrine sweat glands, which are distributed over the whole bodies of primates and humans, have long been regarded mainly to have a function in thermoregulation. However, the discovery of dermcidin-derived antimicrobial peptides in eccrine sweat demonstrated that sweat actively participates in the constitutive innate immune defense of human skin against infection. In the meantime, a number of studies proved the importance of dermcidin in skin host defense. Several reports also state that peptides processed from the dermcidin precursor protein exhibit a range of other biological functions in neuronal and cancer cells. This review summarizes the evidence gathered until now concerning the expression of dermcidin and the functional relevance of dermcidin-derived peptides.

Indexed as

Immunity, InnatePeptidesAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsCell SurvivalHumansModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataSkindermcidinPeptides

Identifiers

PMID22455996
PMCPMC6741627
OpenAlexW2070976096

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Registered trials

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