Dialogue between skin microbiota and immunity
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Human skin, the body’s largest organ, functions as a physical barrier to bar the entry of foreign pathogens, while concomitantly providing a home to myriad commensals. Over a human’s life span, keratinized skin cells, immune cells, and microbes all interact to integrate the processes of maintaining skin’s physical and immune barrier under homeostatic healthy conditions and also under multiple stresses, such as wounding or infection. In this Review, we explore the intricate interactions of microbes and immune cells on the skin surface and within associated appendages to regulate this orchestrated maturation in the context of both host physiological changes and environmental challenges.
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Skin microorganisms have an impact on gene expression in the skin and are responsible for training and adjusting its immunological response.
“According to current research, skin microorganisms have an impact on gene expression in the skin and are responsible for training and adjusting its immunological response (Belkaid and Segre 2014;Meisel et al. 2018).”
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- Authors
- Belkaid, Y., & Segre, J. A.
- Affiliations
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Corresponding author
- Belkaid, Yasmine
- Segre, Julia A.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2014-11-21
- Volume
- 346
- Issue
- 6212
- Pages
- 954-959
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2096015065
- Cited by
- 749
- References
- 11
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- FWCI
- 7.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Dermatology › Dermatology and Skin Diseases
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Dermatology › Contact Dermatitis and Allergies
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
- Keywords
- skin microbiome, host-microbe interactions, skin immunity, skin barrier, commensal microorganisms, immune cells, keratinocytes, skin appendages, wound healing, skin infections, host-microbe homeostasis
- MeSH terms
- Dermatitis, Homeostasis, Humans, Immunity, Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes, Skin, Gastrointestinal Tract, Adaptive Immunity, Microbiota
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