TLRs play good cop, bad cop in the lung (original) (raw)
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Toll-like receptors act as mediators of injury or repair in the inflamed lung, and the balance depends on the integrity of a component of the extracellular matrix (pages 1173–1179).
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Figure 1: Jiang et al. found that TLR2 and TLR4 act as key sensors of the extracellular matrix component hyaluronan in the lung.

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Luke A J O'Neill
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O'Neill, L. TLRs play good cop, bad cop in the lung.Nat Med 11, 1161–1162 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1105-1161
- Issue date: 01 November 2005
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1105-1161