Epithelial-immune cell interaction in dry eye.
Epithelial-immune cell interaction in dry eye.
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DOI:
10.1097/ico.0b013e31817f4075
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发表时间:
2008-09
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影响因子:
2.8
通讯作者:
Stern ME
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作者:
Pflugfelder SC;de Paiva CS;Li DQ;Stern ME
Dry eye is a potent stimulus of both innate and adaptive immune systems. At the nexus of the dry eye inflammatory/immune response is the dynamic interplay between the ocular surface epithelia and the bone marrow–derived immune cells. On the one hand, ocular surface epithelial cells play a key initiating role in this inflammatory reaction. On the other hand, they are targets of cytokines produced by activated T cells that are recruited to the ocular surface in response to dry eye. This interaction between epithelial and immune cells in dry eye will be thoroughly reviewed.