Editorial overview: Special section: effects of endogenous immune stimulants: from a defence system against infection to a homeostatic mechanism linking metabolism with inflammation
1 Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA; Institute of Innate Immunity, University Hospitals, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, 53127 Bonn, Germany. Electronic address: Eicke.Latz@umassmed.edu.
2 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato ku, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: kmiyake@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp.