Paneth Cell ?-Defensin Synthesis and Function -- Immunomodulatory Properties of Defensins and Cathelicidins -- Host Antimicrobial Defence Peptides in Human Disease -- Antimicrobial Peptides: An Essential Component of the Skin Defensive Barrier -- Antimicrobial Peptides Versus Invasive Infections -- Antimicrobial Peptides in the Airway -- Hepcidin—A Peptide Hormone at the Interface of Innate Immunity and Iron Metabolism -- Innate Host Defense of Human Vaginal and CervicalMucosae -- Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Resistance to Antimicrobial Peptides -- Bacterial Evasion of Antimicrobial Peptides by Biofilm Formation.