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01-12-2018 | Letter to the Editor
Detection of IL10-producing B cell (B10) in adenoids of atopic children with adenoidal hypertrophy
Authors:
Chiara Valsecchi, Sara Carlotta Tagliacarne, Ilaria Brambilla, Catherine Klersy, Marco Benazzo, Lorenza Montagna, Dimitri Poddighe, Giorgio Ciprandi, Gian Luigi Marseglia, Amelia Licari, Annamaria Castellazzi
Published in:
Italian Journal of Pediatrics
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Issue 1/2018
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Excerpt
Regulatory cells are important for maintaining immunological homeostasis and tolerance to antigens, including self-antigens. Even though in the majority of autoimmune diseases and inflammatory processes, B cells generally play an important role due to their capacity to secrete antibodies, it has emerged that different B cell subsets may be able to down regulate immune responses, especially in experimental autoimmune disease models. Moreover, it has been demonstrated that B cells are able to drive T cell differentiation in favor of a regulatory phenotype (regulatory T cells, Treg) both in mice and humans [
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