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FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 5, Issue -, Pages 1-19Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2014.00347
Keywords
immune surveillance; Type 2 immunity; epithelial cells; tissue homeostasis; carcinogenesis; IgE; intraepithelial lymphocytes; sterile stress
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- Wellcome Trust
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Epithelial cells (ECs) line body surface tissues and provide a physicochemical barrier to the external environment. Frequent microbial and non-microbial challenges such as those imposed by mechanical disruption, injury or exposure to noxious environmental substances including chemicals, carcinogens, ultraviolet-irradiation, or toxins cause activation of ECs with release of cytokines and chemokines as well as alterations in the expression of cell-surface ligands. Such display of epithelial stress is rapidly sensed by tissue-resident immunocytes, which can directly interact with self-moieties on ECs and initiate both local and systemic immune responses. ECs are thus key drivers of immune surveillance at body surface tissues. However, ECs have a propensity to drive type 2 immunity (rather than type 1) upon non-invasive challenge or stress a type of immunity whose regulation and function still remain enigmatic. Here, we review the induction and possible role of type 2 immunity in epithelial tissues and propose that rapid immune surveillance and type 2 immunity are key regulators of tissue homeostasis and carcinogenesis.
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