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SUBMITTER: Minutti CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5737834 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Minutti Carlos M CM Jackson-Jones Lucy H LH García-Fojeda Belén B Knipper Johanna A JA Sutherland Tara E TE Logan Nicola N Ringqvist Emma E Guillamat-Prats Raquel R Ferenbach David A DA Artigas Antonio A Stamme Cordula C Chroneos Zissis C ZC Zaiss Dietmar M DM Casals Cristina C Allen Judith E JE
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20170511 6342
The type 2 immune response controls helminth infection and maintains tissue homeostasis but can lead to allergy and fibrosis if not adequately regulated. We have discovered local tissue-specific amplifiers of type 2-mediated macrophage activation. In the lung, surfactant protein A (SP-A) enhanced interleukin-4 (IL-4)-dependent macrophage proliferation and activation, accelerating parasite clearance and reducing pulmonary injury after infection with a lung-migrating helminth. In the peritoneal ca ...[more]