The Immune Response to Helminthic Worm Infections in the Gastrointestinal

Essay

The immune response to helminthic worm infections in the gastrointestinal tract requires specialized mechanisms due to the fact that helminths are too large to be ingested and destroyed by phagocytes. For example, cytokines made by T_H2 cells elicit responses from multiple non-hematopoietic cell types that aid in parasite expulsion. Name two of these cell types and for each of them, their response to T_H2-produced cytokines.