title: Be a good neighbor: organ-to-organ communication during the innate immune response.
abstract: Local infection in the Drosophila larval intestine elicits a systemic immune reaction in fat bodies. In this issue, Wu and colleagues (2012) show that this is a reactive oxygen species-dependent communication.
authors.affiliation: Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA.
authors.forename: Alla
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Amcheslavsky
authors.forename: Y Tony
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Ip