title: Role of group 3 innate lymphoid cells in antibody production.
abstract: Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) constitute a heterogeneous family of effector lymphocytes of the innate immune system that mediate lymphoid organogenesis, tissue repair, immunity and inflammation. The initial view that ILCs exert their protective functions solely during the innate phase of an immune response has been recently challenged by evidence indicating that ILCs shape adaptive immunity by establishing both contact-dependent and contact-independent interactions with multiple hematopoietic and non-hematopoietic cells, including B cells. Some of these interactions enhance antibody responses both systemically and at mucosal sites of entry.
authors.affiliation: Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Giuliana
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Magri
authors.affiliation: Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, Barcelona, Spain; Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, Barcelona, Spain; Immunology Institute, Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: acerutti@imim.es.
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cerutti
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000917:Antibody Formation; D006706:Homeostasis; D006801:Humans; D007109:Immunity; D007113:Immunity, Innate; D016131:Lymphocyte Subsets / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism*; D008221:Lymphoid Tissue / Q000196:embryology / Q000378:metabolism; D009092:Mucous Membrane / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D038081:Organogenesis; D010641:Phenotype