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CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES
卷 62, 期 12, 页码 1297-1307出版社
SPRINGER BASEL AG
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-005-5034-2
关键词
Paneth cells; antimicrobial peptides; enteropathogens; pathogen-associated molecular patterns; pattern recognition receptors; inflammatory bowel disease; probiotics
The innate immune system plays a crucial role in maintaining the integrity of the intestine and protecting the host against a vast number of potential microbial pathogens from resident and transient gut microflora. Mucosal epithelial cells and Paneth cells produce a variety of antimicrobial peptides (defensins, cathelicidins, crytdin-related sequence peptides, bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein, chemokine CCL20) and bacteriolytic enzymes (lysozyme, group IIA phospholipase A2) that protect mucosal surfaces and crypts containing intestinal stem cells against invading microbes. Many of the intestinal antimicrobial molecules have additional roles of attracting leukocytes, alarming the adaptive immune system or neutralizing proinflammatory bacterial molecules. Dysfunction of components of the innate immune system has recently been implicated in chronic inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, illustrating the pivotal role of innate immunity in maintaining the delicate balance between immune tolerance and immune response in the gut.
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