Eosinophils: friends or foes?

MJ Chusid - The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In …, 2018 - Elsevier
The roles eosinophils are recognized to play in health and disease continue to evolve.
Formerly, eosinophils were believed to fill a primary role in host defense against helminths …

Changing roles of eosinophils in health and disease

GT Furuta, FD Atkins, NA Lee, JJ Lee - Annals of allergy, asthma & …, 2014 - Elsevier
Objective To review and highlight the unappreciated roles of eosinophils suggested by
recent studies. Data Sources The literature, unpublished observations, and insights by the …

The eosinophil: for better or worse, in sickness and in health

BS Bochner - Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, 2018 - Elsevier
The eosinophil is a leukocyte whose granules stain beautifully and avidly with the acidic red
dye eosin (also known as bromo-eosin, solvent red 43, 2′, 4′, 5′, 7 …

Eosinophils in health and disease: the LIAR hypothesis

JJ Lee, EA Jacobsen, MP McGarry… - Clinical & …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Discussions of eosinophils are often descriptions of end‐stage effector cells with destructive
capabilities mediated predominantly by released cytotoxic cationic granule proteins …

Eosinophils: singularly destructive effector cells or purveyors of immunoregulation?

EA Jacobsen, AG Taranova, NA Lee, JJ Lee - Journal of Allergy and …, 2007 - Elsevier
Eosinophils are granulocytes typically associated with immune responses to a limited
number of specific insults, including helminth infection and exposure to various allergens …

Biology of eosinophils

H Kita, BS Bochner - Middleton's allergy principles and practice, 2013 - books.google.com
The eosinophilis a bone marrow–derived, peripheral blood and tissue granulocyte
prominent in allergic and inflammatory responses against metazoan helminthic parasites but …

Eosinophils: multifunctional and distinctive properties

H Kita - International archives of allergy and immunology, 2013 - karger.com
The eosinophil is a granulocyte prominent in allergic diseases and inflammatory responses
against helminthic parasites. The eosinophil was named by Paul Ehrlich in 1879, and …

Eosinophils: multifaceted biological properties and roles in health and disease

H Kita - Immunological reviews, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Eosinophils are leukocytes resident in mucosal tissues. During T‐helper 2 (Th2)‐type
inflammation, eosinophils are recruited from bone marrow and blood to the sites of immune …

Eosinophils from physiology to disease: a comprehensive review

GA Ramirez, MR Yacoub, M Ripa… - BioMed research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Despite being the second least represented granulocyte subpopulation in the circulating
blood, eosinophils are receiving a growing interest from the scientific community, due to their …

A player and coordinator: the versatile roles of eosinophils in the immune system

H Long, W Liao, L Wang, Q Lu - Transfusion Medicine and …, 2016 - karger.com
Eosinophils have traditionally been associated with allergic diseases and parasite infection.
Research advances in the recent decades have brought evolutionary changes in our …