Beyond inflammation: airway epithelial cells are at the interface of innate and adaptive immunity

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 711-720

  Kato, Atsushi ^a   Schleimer, Robert P ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAFF PROTEIN; CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTERLEUKIN 13 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 33; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; THYMIC STROMAL LYMPHOPOIETIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLERGIC DISEASE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL INTERACTION; COMPREHENSION; DENDRITIC CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTERVENTION STUDY; MOLECULE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; RESPIRATORY TRACT MUCOSA; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CYTOKINES; DENDRITIC CELLS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, ACTIVE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; STAT6 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 36848998523     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2007.08.004     Document Type: Review

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