CAMP and bacterial infectious disease: We chose to examine the particular peptides noted in this work because of their continued appearance in the literature concerning intestinal well-being, and although our observations with cathelicidin LL-37 pose a bit of a quandary, this peptide having previously been associated only with epithelial cells of the colon, Termen et al did report the rat cathelicidin rCRAMP being identified in small intestine.20-22 It is, therefore, evident that multiple mechanisms and compounds are employed to combat bacterial infection and, more importantly, bacterial entry into underlying tissues.