Mechanisms of Mucosal Immonoregulation and Allergy
A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X). This special issue belongs to the section "Pathogens-host Immune Interface".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 463
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nutritional deficiencies; nutrients; minerals; cross feeding; microbes; inflammation; immune resilience; immune tolerance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are shaped by our environment, with our mucosal immune system being at the forefront of handling and discerning between harmful and harmless factors. Lifestyle, diet, microbes, and airborne components affect our immune system, are essential for our well-being, and contribute to mucosal tolerance. However, under specific settings, the same contributors can tip the system toward disease, e.g., allergy or inflammation. Understanding how, which factors, when, and why this happens is pivotal to develop preventive or therapeutic measurements that re-establish health or at least prevent the disease course.
This Special Issue focuses on the recent scientific progresses that enhance our understanding on mucosal immonoregulation and allergy. Based on your expertise, we invite you to submit an original report, observation or review that identifies (i) environmental contributors, (ii) immune pathways to sensitization, (iii) mechanisms of tolerance induction, and (iv) recent advances in novel prophylactic and therapeutic measurements.
Dr. Franziska Roth-Walter
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- allergy
- mucosal immunology
- immune regulation
- environmental triggers
- microbes
- diet
- life style
- allergens
- inflammation
- tolerance
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