“…The body's natural defense mechanism of inflammation which promotes cell repair and healing [107] was mimicked in our wdNHBE model, with the increased expression of proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines such as TNF, IL1B, IL6, CXCL8 and CXCL10. This suggests that wdNHBE cells recognize IAV and poly(I:C) through binding to pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) such as the Toll-like receptors (TLR3, TLR7, and TLR8), retinoic acid-inducible gene I (RIG-I) and melanoma differentiation-associated protein-5 (MDA-5), triggering innate immune response signaling cascades as occurs in vivo [22,54,55,[108][109][110][111][112][113][114]. Antiviral, pro-and anti-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines are then upregulated in the host [27,56,115].…”