CCL17 Controls Mast Cells for the Defense against Filarial Larval Entry

Sabine Specht*,1, Jutta K. Frank*,1, Judith Alferink†‡, Bettina Dubben*, Laura E. Layland*, Gaelle Denece§, Odile Bain§, Irmgard Förster¶, Carsten J. Kirschning‖, Coralie Martin§ and Achim Hoerauf*

Sources: *Institute for Medical Microbiology,, Immunology and Parasitology, University Hospital Bonn, 53105 Bonn, Germany; †Institute of Molecular Psychiatry, University of Bonn, 53105 Bonn, Germany; ‡Department of Psychiatry, University of Bonn, 53105 Bonn, Germany; §USM 307, Parasitologie Comparée et Modèles Expérimentaux, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris Cedex 05, France; ¶Molecular Immunology, Leibniz Research Institute for Environment,al Medicine, University of Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany; and ‖Institute for Medical Microbiology,, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Sabine Specht, Institute for Medical Microbiology,, Immunology and Parasitology, University Hospital Bonn, Sigmund Freud Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany. E-mail address: specht@Microbiology,-bonn.de ↵1 S.S. and J.K.F. contributed equally to this work.

Published online before print March 11, 2011, doi: 10.4049/​jimmunol.1000612 The Journal of Immunology March 11, 2011 1000612