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Dangerous Allergens: Why Some Allergens are Bad Actors

Dangerous Allergens: Why Some Allergens are Bad Actors Immune responses can be compartmentalized into innate versus adaptive components. This relatively recent dichotomy positioned the innate immune system at the interface between the host and the external environment and provided a new conceptual framework with which to view allergic diseases, including asthma. Airway epithelial cells and dendritic cells are key components of the innate immune system in the nose and lung and are now known to be intimately involved in allergen recognition and in modulating allergic immune responses. Here we review current thinking about how these two key cell types sense and respond to inhaled allergens, and emphasize how an understanding of “allergic innate immunity” can translate into new thinking about mechanisms of allergen sensitization and potentially lead to new therapeutic targets. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Current Allergy and Asthma Reports Springer Journals

Dangerous Allergens: Why Some Allergens are Bad Actors

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2010 by Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Subject
Medicine & Public Health; Otorhinolaryngology; Pneumology/Respiratory System; Allergology
ISSN
1529-7322
eISSN
1534-6315
DOI
10.1007/s11882-010-0090-6
pmid
20425500
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Abstract

Immune responses can be compartmentalized into innate versus adaptive components. This relatively recent dichotomy positioned the innate immune system at the interface between the host and the external environment and provided a new conceptual framework with which to view allergic diseases, including asthma. Airway epithelial cells and dendritic cells are key components of the innate immune system in the nose and lung and are now known to be intimately involved in allergen recognition and in modulating allergic immune responses. Here we review current thinking about how these two key cell types sense and respond to inhaled allergens, and emphasize how an understanding of “allergic innate immunity” can translate into new thinking about mechanisms of allergen sensitization and potentially lead to new therapeutic targets.

Journal

Current Allergy and Asthma ReportsSpringer Journals

Published: Mar 18, 2010

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