Chapter title |
Inflammasomes in the Gut Mucosal Homeostasis
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Chapter number | 6 |
Book title |
Regulation of Inflammatory Signaling in Health and Disease
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Published in |
Advances in experimental medicine and biology, January 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/978-981-10-5987-2_6 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-9-81-105986-5, 978-9-81-105987-2
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Authors |
Xiaomin Yao, Guangxun Meng |
Abstract |
Inflammasomes are critical checkpoints in inflammation. The activation of inflammasome can cause a series of inflammatory responses including maturation of interleukin (IL)-1β and IL-18 and a specialized form of cell death called pyroptosis. Since its identification in the early 2000s, inflammasomes have been implicated to play multifaceted roles in varied pathological and physiological conditions, especially in the mucosal compartments including the gut. Maintaining gut mucosal homeostasis has always been a remarkable challenge for the host due to both the vast mucosal surface that is exposed to the outside and the enormous amount of local microbiota. To accomplish this challenge, the host mounts a constant dynamic low-grade inflammatory response (physiological inflammation) in coping with insults of microbes in the intestine. This book chapter aims to summarize the current knowledge of how inflammasomes contribute to gut mucosal homeostasis. |
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