The role of innate immune signaling in the pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis and consequences for treatments

Seminars in Immunopathology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 29-43

  Skabytska, Yuliya ^a,b   Kaesler, Susanne ^a,b   Volz, Thomas ^a   Biedermann, Tilo ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atopic dermatitis; Cutaneous inflammation; TLR2

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; HETERODIMER; INTERLEUKIN 6; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING OLIGOMERIZATION DOMAIN LIKE RECEPTOR; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; PATHOGEN ASSOCIATED MOLECULAR PATTERN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; DERMIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; KERATINOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MAST CELL; MICROBIOME; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL BARRIER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; SKIN FUNCTION; SPECIES INVASION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRATUM CORNEUM; TH2 CELL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PATHOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MICROBIOTA; PATHOGEN-ASSOCIATED MOLECULAR PATTERN MOLECULES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, PATTERN RECOGNITION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 84953636932     PISSN: 18632297     EISSN: 18632300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00281-015-0544-y     Document Type: Review

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