Allergy as an epithelial barrier disease
Pirkko Mattila, Sakari Joenväärä, Jutta Renkonen, Sanna Toppila-Salmi and Risto Renkonen
Clinical and Translational Allergy20111:5 The objective of this review is to focus on putative modified epithelial functions related to allergy. The dysregulation of the epithelial barrier might result in the allergen uptake, which could be the primary defect in the pathogenesis of allergic...