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Microfold  Cells or M Cells are present in follicle-associated epithelium (FAE)
Follicle -associated epithelium is a specialized epithelium present over  Peyer’s  patch in small intestine and isolated lymphoid follicles.
M cells are seen in epithelial cells of the mucosa-associated lymphoid tissues.


== Microfold  Cells or M Cells ==
== Microfold  Cells or M Cells ==
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M cells are seen in epithelial cells of the mucosa-associated lymphoid tissues.  
M cells are seen in epithelial cells of the mucosa-associated lymphoid tissues.  
'''Microfold cells''' (or '''M cells''') are found in the gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) of the Peyer's patches in the small intestine, and in the mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) of other parts of the gastrointestinal tract.
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== What are the  antigen-presenting cells? ==
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== What is function of the M Cells? ==
== What is function of the M Cells? ==
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M cells function are phagocytosis and transcytosis. M cells are capable of taking up large particulate antigens from the lumen and transporting them intact into the subepithelial space.
M cells function are phagocytosis and transcytosis. M cells are capable of taking up large particulate antigens from the lumen and transporting them intact into the subepithelial space.


== What is function of the M Cells in polio virus infection? ==
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M cells express lectin-like molecules in the apical surface. These molecules  help to promote binding to specific pathogens such as poliovirus.
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|Macrophages and lymphocytes migrate to lymph nodes to start immune response
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== How the M Cells take up antigens from lumen and delivered to antigen-presenting cells? ==
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== Which pathogens  exploit M Cells ? ==
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|''Yersinia pseudotuberculosis''
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|Prions- bovine spongiform encephalitis (Mad-cow disease)
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|Polio and Reovirus
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== How polio virus exploits  M Cells for dissemination? ==
M cells express lectin-like molecules in the apical surface. These molecules  help to promote binding to poliovirus and helps in dissemination.


== What is the mechanism where M cells involved with IgA response in payer patches? ==
== What is the mechanism where M cells involved with IgA response in payer patches? ==

Latest revision as of 21:17, 2 March 2022

Microfold  Cells or M Cells are present in follicle-associated epithelium (FAE)

Follicle -associated epithelium is a specialized epithelium present over  Peyer’s  patch in small intestine and isolated lymphoid follicles.

M cells are seen in epithelial cells of the mucosa-associated lymphoid tissues.

Microfold  Cells or M Cells

Where the M Cells present?

Microfold  Cells or M Cells are present in follicle-associated epithelium (FAE)

Follicle -associated epithelium is a specialized epithelium present over  Peyer’s  patch in small intestine and isolated lymphoid follicles.

M cells are seen in epithelial cells of the mucosa-associated lymphoid tissues.

Microfold cells (or M cells) are found in the gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) of the Peyer's patches in the small intestine, and in the mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) of other parts of the gastrointestinal tract.

Microfold cells (or M cells) are found
1 GALT - Gut-associated lymphoid tissue Peyer's patches in the small intestine
2 MALT - Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue Other parts of the gastrointestinal tract.

What are the antigen-presenting cells?

Antigen-presenting cells
1 B lymphocytes
2 Dendritic cells

What is function of the M Cells?

M cells helps to transport antigens from intestinal lumen to  immune system cells, and starts

an immune response or tolerance.

M cells function are phagocytosis and transcytosis. M cells are capable of taking up large particulate antigens from the lumen and transporting them intact into the subepithelial space.

Function of the M Cells
1 Selective endocytosis of antigens from gut lumen
2 Transport of microbes and antigens to intraepithelial macrophages and lymphocytes
3 Macrophages and lymphocytes migrate to lymph nodes to start immune response

How the M Cells take up antigens from lumen and delivered to antigen-presenting cells?

M Cells mechanism to take up antigens
1 Endocytosis
2 Phagocytosis
3 Transcytosis

Which pathogens exploit M Cells ?

Mechanism of exploiting M Cells Organisms
To penetrate intestinal epithelium Shigella flexneri
1 Salmonella typhimurium
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
Prions- bovine spongiform encephalitis (Mad-cow disease)
2 Exploitation as a virulence factor EPEC -Pathogenic Escherichia coli
3 For Dissemination Polio and Reovirus

How polio virus exploits M Cells for dissemination?

M cells express lectin-like molecules in the apical surface. These molecules  help to promote binding to poliovirus and helps in dissemination.

What is the mechanism where M cells involved with IgA response in payer patches?

Antigens that bind to the M cell and are transported to the underlying Peyer patches generally elicit a positive (IgA) response.

M cell helps to connect  Peyer patches and lymphoid follicles as conduit.

Once antigens enter the Peyer patch, TGF-β-secreting T cells promote B cell isotype switching to IgA.


If Peyer patch B cells are absent then  M cells are also absent. [M cells have not seen in B cell–deficient animals, which lack Peyer patches]

Peyer  patches have T cell-dependent areas and B cell-dependent/germinal centers typical of lymph nodes, but only efferent lymphatics.