Only Two Can Tango: Mast Cells Displace Epithelial Cells to Dance with ILC2s

Publication date: 16 May 2017
Source:Immunity, Volume 46, Issue 5
Author(s): Tiffany Bouchery, Nicola L. Harris
Mast cells have been implicated in protective immunity to helminth infection, but the precise mechanism remains unclear. In this issue of Immunity, Shimokawa et al., 2017 report that mast cells are a bridge linking dying epithelial cells with effector type 2 innate lymphoid cells.

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Mast cells have been implicated in protective immunity to helminth infection, but the precise mechanism remains unclear. In this issue of Immunity, Shimokawa and colleagues (2017) report that mast cells are a bridge linking dying epithelial cells with effector type 2 innate lymphoid cells.


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