Examination of the mucosal immune system as a global organ, rather than as a group of individual components, will identify and characterize relationships between mucosal sites. The term 'common ...

New insights into the workings of the mucosal immune system, together with clinical and genetic advances, offer exciting opportunities for translational research. This Focus issue of Nature ...

Effective ocular immunotherapies and vaccines to prevent HSV-1 infection are lacking but the ocular mucosal immune system has shown to be an effective means to generate local and systemic immune ...

Genes involved in immune system function have atypical expression patterns in the brains of people with some neurological and psychiatric conditions, including autism, according to a new study of ...