The mucus and mucins of the goblet cells and enterocytes provide the first defense line of the gastrointestinal tract and interact with the immune system

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 260, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 8-20

  Pelaseyed, Thaher ^a   Bergström, Joakim H ^a   Gustafsson, Jenny K ^a   Ermund, Anna ^a   Birchenough, George M H ^a   Schütte, André ^a   van der Post, Sjoerd ^a   Svensson, Frida ^a   Rodríguez Piñeiro, Ana M ^a   Nyström, Elisabeth E L ^a   Wising, Catharina ^a   Johansson, Malin E V ^a   Hansson, Gunnar C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Inflammation; Inflammatory bowel disease; Mucosa

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CD103 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 10; MUCIN; MUCIN 12; MUCIN 17; MUCIN 2; MUCIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL VACUOLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; COLITIS; COLON MUCOSA; DENDRITIC CELL; DISULFIDE BOND; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GLYCOCALYX; GOBLET CELL; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INTESTINE CELL; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; INTESTINE MUCOSA; LAMINA PROPRIA; LARGE INTESTINE; MUCUS; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NONHUMAN; PEYER PATCH; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUCOSA; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ENTEROCYTES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GOBLET CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MUCINS; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; MUCUS; PEYER'S PATCHES;

EID: 84902578841     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/imr.12182     Document Type: Review

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