Human defensin 5 is stored in precursor form in normal Paneth cells and is expressed by some villous epithelial cells and by metaplastic Paneth cells in the colon in inflammatory bowel disease
1Division of Gastroenterology, University of Nottingham, UK,
bDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Nottingham, UK,
cDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK