Table 3.

Basophils as key cells in expression of acquired tick resistance.

Observations	Publication	Reference Number
Basophils in acquired resistance to ticks	Karasuyama et al., 2018, 2020; Yoshikawa et al., 2021	[107,120] [128]
Basophil and mast cell similarities and differences in their biology, roles in host defense and disease pathogenesis, and availability of specific molecular tools to distinguish their effector functions	Voehringer, 2013; Karasuyama et al., 2018, 2020 Tabakawa et al., 2018 Yoshikawa et al., 2021	[106] [107,120] [125] [128]
Basophil function as antigen presenting cells for Th2 responses	Ohta et al., 2017 Karasuyama et al., 2018, 2020	[126] [107,120]