%0 Journal Article
%T Papel de las c¨¦lulas epiteliales en la respuesta inmune del pulm¨®n
%A Rivas-Santiago
%A Bruno Tonatiuh
%A Torres Rojas
%A Martha
%A Bobadilla Lozoya
%A Karen
%A Sada D¨ªaz
%A Eduardo
%J Revista del Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias
%D 2005
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X the respiratory tract is one of the main systems which is in perennial contact with a wide variety of pathogenic microorganisms; however, infection is seldom produced due to its innate immune response. respiratory tract epithelial cells play a very important role to avoid colonization of the lung by infectious agents, because they recognize microbial molecules through very specialized receptors, such as toll-like receptors; moreover, these cells posses a broad variety of molecules which are related to local immunity. respiratory tract epithelial cells produce chemokines, antimicrobial peptides and other proinflammatory molecules that prevent the establishment of pathogenic microorganisms
%K epithelial cells
%K antimicrobial peptides
%K defensins
%K innate immunity.
%U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0187-75852005000400011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en