Goblet cells and mucins: Role in innate defense in enteric infections

Pathogens

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 55-70

  Kim, Janice J ^a,b   Khan, Waliul I ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Enteric infection; Goblet cells; Innate defense; Mucins

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 22; MUCIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEIN KINASE B; WNT PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CELL MIGRATION; COMMENSAL; EXOCYTOSIS; GOBLET CELL; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; INTESTINE INFECTION; PARASITOSIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TH17 CELL; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84893093111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20760817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/pathogens2010055     Document Type: Review

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