Vasileios I Theofilou1,2, David Fraser3, Eleni Kanasi1

  • 1Human Barrier Immunity Section, Laboratory of Host Immunity and Microbiome, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA.

Nature immunology
|February 9, 2026
PubMed
まとめ

ヒトの口腔粘膜は、炎症時でさえ構造化された免疫防御を維持している。この研究は、この露出したバリアを保護するために不可欠な、歯の界面における特殊化された免疫細胞ゾーンを明らかにする。

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