Figure 2.
Exogenous LL-37 rescues HSV infected keratinocytes. Human keratinocytes were infected with 0.05 pfu/cell HSV-2 for six hours and then treated with physiologic concentrations of LL-37 for an additional 18 hours. RNA was isolated from the cells and the levels of HSV-2 gene expression evaluated by real-time RT-PCR. **indicates a significant difference of p<0.01 as compared to HSV alone.