Lung immunity: necessity is the mother of induction
Max Corbett
& Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl
The authors are at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), 1066 Epalinges, Switzerland, and the Division of Immunology and Allergy, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland. max.corbett@isrec.unil.ch
Lymphoid structures, complete with B cell follicles, germinal centers, and T cell zones, form in the lung in response to influenza infection. This finding casts new light on respiratory immunity, showing that it is more self-contained than previously thought (927−934).
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