Editorial: Loss of Epithelial Barrier Integrity in Inflammatory Diseases: Cellular Mediators and Therapeutic Targets

Front Med (Lausanne). 2021 Dec 9:8:813153. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.813153. eCollection 2021.

¹ Division of Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases and Rheumatology, Medical Department, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
² Clinical Physiology/Nutritional Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
³ Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.
⁴ Deutsches Zentrum Immuntherapie (DZI), University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany.
⁵ Internal Medicine 2 (Gastroenterology and Hepatology), Faculty of Medicine, Kepler University Hospital, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria.
⁶ Department of Medicine 1, University Hospital of Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.

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Keywords: IBD pathogenesis; barrier integrity; immune-epithelial interactions; inflammatory bowel diseases; intestinal mucosa.

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