The skin is an important bulwark of acquired immunity against intestinal helminths

Inflammatory Monocytes Recruited to Allergic Skin Acquire an Anti-inflammatory M2 Phenotype via Basophil-Derived Interleukin-4

(2013) Mayumi Egawa et al.   IMMUNITY

Eosinophilic Pneumonias

(2012) P. Akuthota et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS

An essential role for TH2-type responses in limiting acute tissue damage during experimental helminth infection

(2012) Fei Chen et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

Antibodies and IL-3 support helminth-induced basophil expansion

(2012) T. Herbst et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New Paradigms in Type 2 Immunity

(2012) B. Pulendran et al.   SCIENCE

Genetic analysis of basophil function in vivo

(2011) Brandon M Sullivan et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

Basophils Orchestrate Chronic Allergic Dermatitis and Protective Immunity against Helminths

(2010) Caspar Ohnmacht et al.   IMMUNITY

The Lung Is an Important Site for Priming CD4 T-Cell-Mediated Protective Immunity against Gastrointestinal Helminth Parasites

(2010) M. Harvie et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Selective ablation of basophils in mice reveals their nonredundant role in acquired immunity against ticks

(2010) Takeshi Wada et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

B Cells Have Distinct Roles in Host Protection against Different Nematode Parasites

(2010) Q. Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Nuocytes represent a new innate effector leukocyte that mediates type-2 immunity

(2010) Daniel R. Neill et al.   NATURE

Basophils and the T helper 2 environment can promote the development of lupus nephritis

(2010) Nicolas Charles et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

Developing vaccines to combat hookworm infection and intestinal schistosomiasis

(2010) Peter J. Hotez et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Systemically dispersed innate IL-13-expressing cells in type 2 immunity

(2010) A. E. Price et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Concurrent infection withHeligmosomoides polygyrussuppresses anti-Plasmodium yoeliiprotection partially by induction of CD4+CD25+Foxp3+Treg in mice

(2009) Kohhei Tetsutani et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Cutting Edge: Basophils Are Transiently Recruited into the Draining Lymph Nodes during Helminth Infection via IL-3, but Infection-Induced Th2 Immunity Can Develop without Basophil Lymph Node Recruitment or IL-3

(2009) S. Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Basophils Protect against Reinfection with Hookworms Independently of Mast Cells and Memory Th2 Cells

(2009) Caspar Ohnmacht et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Basophils preferentially express mouse mast cell protease 11 among the mast cell tryptase family in contrast to mast cells

(2009) Tsukasa Ugajin et al.   JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY

Innate production of TH2 cytokines by adipose tissue-associated c-Kit+Sca-1+ lymphoid cells

(2009) Kazuyo Moro et al.   NATURE

Basophils contribute to TH2-IgE responses in vivo via IL-4 production and presentation of peptide–MHC class II complexes to CD4+ T cells

(2009) Tomohiro Yoshimoto et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

MHC class II–dependent basophil–CD4+ T cell interactions promote TH2 cytokine–dependent immunity

(2009) Jacqueline G Perrigoue et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

Immunoglobulin D enhances immune surveillance by activating antimicrobial, proinflammatory and B cell–stimulating programs in basophils

(2009) Kang Chen et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

Basophils function as antigen-presenting cells for an allergen-induced T helper type 2 response

(2009) Caroline L Sokol et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

Nippostrongylus brasiliensis infection leads to the development of emphysema associated with the induction of alternatively activated macrophages

(2008) Benjamin J. Marsland et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Helminth infections: the great neglected tropical diseases

(2008) Peter J. Hotez et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Basophils enhance immunological memory responses

(2008) Andrea Denzel et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

Prolactin evokes lactational transmission of larvae in mice infected with Toxocara canis

(2008) Zongfan Jin et al.   PARASITOLOGY INTERNATIONAL