Annual Congress Berlin 2008

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The battle between environmental “invaders” and airway epithelial defences

Symposium
Chairs: J. Nadel (San Francisco, United States of America), S. Holgate (Southampton, United Kingdom)
Aims: At the end of the symposium, the audience should:
• understand the concept of airway innate immunity and the various responses that protect the host;
• understand the general signalling pathways responsible for innate immune airway responses;
• have knowledge of ways that neutrophils can affect the epithelium and become familiar with deleterious effects of exuberant neutrophil responses;
• discover differences between epithelial responses in healthy subjects and individuals with chronic airway diseases.

Role of neutrophils in epithelial signalling S. Holgate (Southampton, United Kingdom)
Relevance of innate immune responses to chronic airway diseases M. Whyte (Sheffield, United Kingdom)