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.