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Featured Papers | 9/16/2021

Human gut-associated lymphoid tissues (GALT); diversity, structure, and function

Gut-associated lymphoid tissues (GALT) are the key antigen sampling and adaptive immune inductive sites within the intestinal wall. Human GALT includes the multi-follicular Peyer’s patches of the i...

| 9/9/2021

Neutrophils in respiratory viral infections

Viral respiratory infections are a common cause of severe disease, especially in infants, people who are immunocompromised, and in the elderly. Neutrophils, an important innate immune cell, infiltr...

| 9/2/2021

Prenatal maternal infection promotes tissue-specific immunity and inflammation in offspring

Most infections that occur during pregnancy are mild and transient. However, whether such pathogen encounters can shape the long-term trajectory of the offspring’s immune system remains unclear. Li...