Intestinal epithelial cells: Regulators of barrier function and immune homeostasis

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 141-153

  Peterson, Lance W ^a   Artis, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; TIGHT JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; COMMENSAL; COMMENSALISM; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOREGULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MONONUCLEAR PHAGOCYTE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TIGHT JUNCTION;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; ANTIGEN-PRESENTING CELLS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HOMEOSTASIS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, LARGE; INTESTINE, SMALL; LYMPHOCYTES; MICE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84896851032     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri3608     Document Type: Review

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