The Antimicrobial Peptide Human Beta-Defensin-3 Is Induced by Platelet-Released Growth Factors in Primary Keratinocytes

Figure 2

hBD-3 mRNA induction by PRGF is time-dependent. Primary keratinocytes were stimulated with PRGF (1 : 10 diluted in cell culture medium) for different time periods (4, 12, 24, 48, and 72 hours), and hBD-3 gene expression was analyzed by real-time PCR (, ns = not significant, Student’s t-test).