Activation of interferon regulatory factor 7 in plasmacytoid dendritic cells promotes experimental autoimmune pancreatitis.
Kosuke MinagaTomohiro WatanabeYasuyuki AraiMasahiro ShiokawaAkane HaraTomoe YoshikawaKen KamataKouhei YamashitaMasatoshi KudoPublished in: Journal of gastroenterology (2020)
These findings suggest that the IRF7-IFN-I-IL-33 axis activated in pDCs drives pathogenic innate immune responses associated with type 1 AIP.