The polymeric immunoglobulin receptor: Bridging innate and adaptive immune responses at mucosal surfaces

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 206, Issue , 2005, Pages 83-99

  Kaetzel, Charlotte S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; HORMONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; SECRETORY COMPONENT; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BINDING SITE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOBIOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIGAND BINDING; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCYTOSIS;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; RECEPTORS, POLYMERIC IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

EID: 23344433145     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-2896.2005.00278.x     Document Type: Review

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