Immunological aspects of intestinal mucus and mucins

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 639-649

  Johansson, Malin E V ^a   Hansson, Gunnar C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DEFENSIN; DELETED IN MALIGNANT BRAIN TUMOR 1; LYSOZYME; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; METRONIDAZOLE; MUCIN; MUCIN 1; MUCIN 2; MUCIN 6; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; STREPTOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; CECUM; COLON MUCOSA; ENTERITIS; GEL; GOBLET CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE CELL; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE MUCOSA; LARGE INTESTINE; MEDIATOR; MUCUS; MUCUS SECRETION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SECRETORY PATHWAY; SMALL INTESTINE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS);

ANIMALS; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GOBLET CELLS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MUCINS; MUCUS;

EID: 84981169022     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri.2016.88     Document Type: Review

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