154:. Also during worm infection, the amount of tuft cells dramatically rises. Hyperplasia of tuft cells and goblet cells is a hallmark of type 2 infection and is regulated by a feed-forward signalling circuit. IL-25 produced by tuft cells induces IL-13 production by ILC2s in the lamina propria. IL-13 then interact with uncommitted epithelial progenitors to affect their lineage selection toward goblet and tuft cells. As a result, the IL-13 is responsible for dramatic remodeling enterocyte epithelium to epithelium which are dominated by tuft and goblet cells. Without IL-25 from tuft cells worm clearance is delayed. The type-2 immune response is based on tuft cells and the response is severely reduced without the presence of these cells, which confirm the important physiologic function for these cells during worm infection. Activation of Th2 cells is an important part of this feed-forward loop. The activation of tuft cells in the intestine is connected with metabolite succinate, which is produced by a parasite and binds to the specific tuft cells receptor Sucnr1 on their surface. Also, the role of intestinal tuft cells can be important for local regeneration in the intestine after an infection.
227:(CD) in people who are more genetically susceptible. Helminth colonization inducts a type-2 immune response, causes mucosal healing and achieves clinical remission. During an intense infection, tuft cells can make their own specification and the hyperplasia of tuft cells is a key response to the expulsion of the worm. This shows that the modulation of tuft cell function may be effective in the treatment of Crohn's Disease.
275:. In rodents, they have been definitively been found: for example, in the trachea, the thymus, the glandular stomach, the gall bladder, the small intestine, the colon, the auditory tube, the pancreatic duct and the urethra. Tuft cells are most of the time isolated cells and take <1% of the epithelium. In the mouse gall bladder and rat bile and pancreatic duct, the tuft cells are more abundant but still isolated.
118:. Tuft cells have been known to secrete various molecules which are important for biological functions. Due to this, tuft cells act as danger sensors and trigger a secretion of biologically active mediators. Despite this, the signals and the mediators that they secrete are wholly dependent on context. For example, tuft cells that are in the
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142:. IL25, being the key activator of innate lymphoid cells type 2. This then initiates and amplifies type-2 cytokine response, characterized by secretion of cytokines from ILC2 cells. Tissue remodeling during type-2 immune response is based on cytokine interleukin (IL)-13. This interleukin is produced mainly by group 2
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Tuft cells have been shown to use taste receptors in the detection of many different helminth species. The clearance of helminth in mice that lacked taste receptor function (Trpm5 or/-gustducin KO) or enough tuft cells (Pou2f3 KO) was impaired compared to that of wild-type mice. This
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