| Literature DB >> 18813079 |
Stephen C Pflugfelder1, Cintia S de Paiva, De-Quan Li, Michael E Stern.
Abstract
Dry eye is a potent stimulus of both innate and adaptive immune systems. At the nexus of the dry eye inflammatory/immune response is the dynamic interplay between the ocular surface epithelia and the bone marrow-derived immune cells. On the one hand, ocular surface epithelial cells play a key initiating role in this inflammatory reaction. On the other hand, they are targets of cytokines produced by activated T cells that are recruited to the ocular surface in response to dry eye. This interaction between epithelial and immune cells in dry eye will be thoroughly reviewed.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18813079 PMCID: PMC4082978 DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e31817f4075
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cornea ISSN: 0277-3740 Impact factor: 2.651