Kidney Disease Immunology
Research from University of Munich yields new data on kidney disease immunology
Published in Gastroenterology Week, May 21st, 2007
Current study results from the report, "Toll-like receptors: emerging concepts in kidney disease," have been published. According to a study from Munich, Germany, "To summarize the recent advances in the role of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) in innate immunity, with a special focus on recent studies addressing the expression and function of TLRs in kidney disease. Pathogen-recognition receptors including TLRs mediate immune activation upon pathogen recognition in different extracellular and intracellular compartments."
"In contrast to professional antigen-presenting cells, renal cells express a limited pattern of TLR (i.e. express TLR1-TLR6 but lack expression of the...
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