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The critical roles and therapeutic implications of tuft cells in cancer

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Atopic dermatitis and IgE-mediated food allergy

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Dual independent mechanisms underlying gut epithelial remodeling upon sugar substitute consumption

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Telocytes: history, origin, identification, structure, distribution, and functions

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TSLP links intestinal nutrient sensing with amplification of the ILC2–tuft cell circuit

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Sensing succinate: SUCNR1 as a context-dependent metabolic and cellular signal integrator

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Ion channel regulation of gut immunity

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Mucosal Invariant T cells are Diminished in Very Early‐Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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A Summary of the Fifth Annual Virology Education HIV Microbiome Workshop

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Remote regulation of type 2 immunity by intestinal parasites

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Supplemental Psyllium Fiber Increases Antimicrobial Proteins via the Tuft Cell-ILC2 Circuit and Type II Immune Response in the Mouse Small Intestine

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Gut-brain cholinergic signaling mediates the antiseizure effects of Bacteroides fragilis

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DCLK1 and tuft cells: Immune-related functions and implications for cancer immunotherapy

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Time-dependent cell-state selection identifies transiently expressed genes regulating ILC2 activation

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Commensal protists in reptiles display flexible host range and adaptation to ectothermic hosts

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G protein subunit Gγ13-mediated signaling pathway is critical to the inflammation resolution and functional recovery of severely injured lungs

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Dietary antigens suppress the proliferation of type 2 innate lymphoid cells by restraining homeostatic IL-25 production

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A Tuft Act to Follow: Leukotrienes Take the Stage in Anti-worm Immunity

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Ecological Sensing Through Taste and Chemosensation Mediates Inflammation: A Biological Anthropological Approach.

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A Murine Commensal Protozoan Influences Host Glucose Homeostasis by Facilitating Free Choline Generation

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Physiological functions and pharmacological targeting of transient receptor potential channels

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Lung-Innervating Neurons in Lung Homeostasis and Diseases

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KIT supports small intestinal tuft cell hyperplasia

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Possible connection between intestinal tuft cells, ILC2s and obesity

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Bitter tastants relax the mouse gallbladder smooth muscle independent of signaling through tuft cells and bitter taste receptors

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BACH2 drives the development and function of group 2 innate lymphoid cells

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Bcl-6 expression by CD4+ T cells determines concomitant immunity and host resistance across distinct parasitic infections

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Gut reactions and gut instincts: regulation of intestinal homeostasis by receptor guanylyl cyclase C (GC-C)

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Cross-kingdom microbial interactions in the gut during inflammatory bowel disease

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Training, memory, and tissue adaptation of NK cells and innate lymphoid cells

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Colonic Tuft Cells: The Less-Recognized Therapeutic Targets in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Colorectal Cancer

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Loss of Elp3 blocks intestinal tuft cell differentiation via an mTORC1-Atf4 axis

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Expansion and Maturation of Innate Lymphoid Cell Precursors Using Human iPSC-Derived Intestinal Organoids

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Human type-1 innate lymphoid cells control leukemia stem cell differentiation and limit acute myeloid leukemia development

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Telocytes link epithelial nutrient sensing with amplification of the ILC2-tuft cell circuitPreprint

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The roles of bitter and sweet taste receptors in food allergy: Where are we now?

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Intestinal lymphatic vasculature is functionally adapted to different drainage regions and is altered by helminth infection

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GPX4-dependent ferroptosis governs ILC2 homeostasis and colitis progression

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Blimp-1 integrates alarmin signals in ILC2s and drives proinflammatory functions required for type 2 immunity

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Host-microbial crosstalk relies on “tuft” love

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Impaired activation of succinate-induced type 2 immunity and secretory cell production in the small intestines of Ptk6−/− male mice

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Metabolomic and functional analyses of small molecules secreted by intestinal nematodes in the activation of epithelial tuft cells

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Tritrichomonas spp. and Their Impact on Gut Immune Homeostasis

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Regulatory network analysis of Dclk1 gene expression reveals a tuft cell-ILC2 axis that inhibits pancreatic tumor progression

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Irradiation Induces Tuft Cell Hyperplasia and Myenteric Neuronal Loss in the Absence of Dietary Fiber in a Mouse Model of Pelvic Radiotherapy

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Could a Small Population of Epithelial Cells Get “Tuft” With Crohn’s Disease?

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Giardia intestinalis reshapes mucosal immunity toward a Type 2 response that attenuates inflammatory bowel-like diseasesPreprint

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Epigenetic control of commensal induced Th2 Responses and Intestinal immunopathologyPreprint

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Gasdermin C links nutrient and immune signaling to protist-induced type 2 immunity and intestinal repairPreprint

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Functional diversity and tissue-specific regulation of Group 2 innate lymphoid cells in barrier immunity

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Tuft cells contribute to the pathogenesis of human primary and experimental murine Sjögren's disease

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Tuft cell-mediated pathogen sensing and inflammation resolution

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Tissue-Resident ILC2s Across Organs: Heterogeneity, Niche Crosstalk, and Shared Regulatory Circuits

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Tuft-cell-derived IL-25 regulates intestinal ILC2 in response to Brucella infection

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Distinguishing Features of ILC2s During Type 2 Immune Responses

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Berberine ameliorates estrogen deficiency-associated bone loss via inducing tuft cell expansion

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Intestinal ILC ‐epithelial cell circuits shaping barrier immunity

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Tuft cells protect against intestinal inflammation through histone deacetylase 3

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Effect of Marlubium vulgare Plant on Experimentally Infected Albino Mice with Trichomonas muris Parasite and Compare with Metronidazole Drug

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