TSLP promotes interleukin-3-independent basophil haematopoiesis and type 2 inflammation
2011
The cytokine thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) has been described as the master switch of allergic inflammation. Here, TSLP is shown to induce the development of basophils from bone-marrow progenitors and to activate peripheral basophils in an interleukin-3 (IL-3)-independent manner. Basophils elicited by TSLP differ from those dependent on IL-3 both phenotypically and functionally, and may play an important part in allergic diseases associated with T-helper type 2 cells.
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