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Aline Ignacio
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Latest papers
Adenophages are an atypical macrophage population in exocrine glands sustained by ILC2-derived GM-CSF.
Nature immunology · 2026
Early life microbiome influences on development of the mucosal innate immune system.
Seminars in immunology · 2024 · first author
Vascular traffic control of neutrophil recruitment to the liver by microbiota-endothelium crosstalk.
Cell reports · 2023
6 publications.
Adenophages are an atypical macrophage population in exocrine glands sustained by ILC2-derived GM-CSF.
Westermann F, Tuzlak S, Kreiner V, Ignacio A, Bejarano D, Bijnen M, Cecconi V, van Hove H, Wang H, Andreadou M, Litscher G, Sparano C, Fróis-Martins R, Gallerand A, Roussel E, Oberbichler L, Lindemann R, DeFeo D, Liu Z, Kipar A, LeibundGut-Landmann S, McCoy K, Nixon I, Bain CC, Schneider C, Ivanov S, Tugues S, Greter M, Ginhoux F, Schlitzer A, Emmerson E, Becher B
Early life microbiome influences on development of the mucosal innate immune system.
Ignacio A, Czyz S, McCoy KD
Vascular traffic control of neutrophil recruitment to the liver by microbiota-endothelium crosstalk.
Zucoloto AZ, Schlechte J, Ignacio A, Thomson CA, Pyke S, Yu IL, Geuking MB, McCoy KD, Yipp BG, Gillrie MR, McDonald B
Small intestinal resident eosinophils maintain gut homeostasis following microbial colonization.
Ignacio A, Shah K, Bernier-Latmani J, Köller Y, Coakley G, Moyat M, Hamelin R, Armand F, Wong NC, Ramay H, Thomson CA, Burkhard R, Wang H, Dufour A, Geuking MB, McDonald B, Petrova TV, Harris NL, McCoy KD
The emerging roles of eosinophils in mucosal homeostasis.
Shah K, Ignacio A, McCoy KD, Harris NL
Microbiota and Type 2 immune responses.
McCoy KD, Ignacio A, Geuking MB
Frequent collaborators
- Antoine Dufour and Braedon McDonald: 2 shared papers
- Braedon McDonald and Aline Ignacio: 2 shared papers
- Kathy McCoy and Aline Ignacio: 1 shared paper
- Antoine Dufour and Aline Ignacio: 1 shared paper
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases
- Medicine
- Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
- Physiology and Pharmacology
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