Article
Toll-like receptors and airway inflammation.
Allergology international : official journal of the Japanese Society of Allergology - 1 Mar 2008
Gon Yasuhiro
Abstract excerpt
The respiratory tract opens to the external environment at the oral side edge, and the other edge of the respiratory tract connects to the closed space (alveoli), and so to preserve the sterility in the terminal respiratory tract is critical for protection against pathogens. The recognition machinery for the invasion of microbes is indispensable for the preservation of the sterility in the lungs. Our general...
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