Early local immune defences in the respiratory tract
Iwasaki A, Foxman EF, Molony RD. Early local immune defences in the respiratory tract. Nature Reviews Immunology 2016, 17: 7-20. PMID: 27890913, PMCID: PMC5480291, DOI: 10.1038/nri.2016.117.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRespiratory tractImmune responseDendritic cellsType 2 immune responsesType 1 immune responsePlasmacytoid dendritic cellsEpithelial cellsTissue-resident lymphocytesLower respiratory tractType of infectionUpper respiratory tractAirway epithelial cellsLocal immune defensePattern recognition receptorsAntimicrobial host defenseLymphoid cell typesCell typesRespiratory infectionsEffector cellsSecrete cytokinesAllergen resultsInnate sensorsMast cellsAirway cellsPathological inflammation