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IMMUNITY
Volume 54, Issue 4, Pages 617-631Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2021.03.010
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This review discusses how advances in the study of human immunology have shaped our understanding of the resident immune network in the respiratory tract, as well as its response to inflammatory stimuli triggered by viruses and allergens. It highlights the similarities in pathogenic infection and allergic inflammation in their response, while also pointing out the differences at key checkpoints.
Immunity in the human respiratory tract is provided by a diverse range of tissue-resident cells, including specialized epithelial and macrophage populations and a network of innate and innate-like lymphocytes, such as natural killer cells, innate lymphoid cells, and invariant T cells. Lung-resident memory T and B cells contribute to this network following initial exposure to antigenic stimuli. This review explores how advances in the study of human immunology have shaped our understanding of this resident immune network and its response to two of the most commonly encountered inflammatory stimuli in the airways: viruses and allergens. It discusses the many ways in which pathogenic infection and allergic inflammation mirror each other, highlighting the key checkpoints at which they diverge and how this can result in a lifetime of allergic exacerbation versus protective anti-viral immunity.
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