Th2 and eosinophil responses suppress inflammatory arthritis

Type 2 immune responses are viewed as opposites of Type 1 and 17 responses. Here the authors show that activation of Type 2 immunity by helminth infection counteracts the development of inflammatory arthritis, a type 17-mediated pathology, via IL-4/IL-13- STAT6 signalling and eosinophil activation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhu Chen, Darja Andreev, Katharina Oeser, Branislav Krljanac, Axel Hueber, Arnd Kleyer, David Voehringer, Georg Schett, Aline Bozec
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11596