Mastocytosis is a rare disorder that develops when the immune system overproduces mast cells—a type of white blood cell that plays an important role in your body's inflammatory process and helps fight ...
Reporting in Nature Medicine, McLachlan and colleagues now reveal a previously unknown role of mast cells (MCs) in the induction of the antigen-specific humoral immune response, and identify MC ...
In contrast, increased numbers of mast cells occurred in patients with a moderate to marked decrease in bone density. It is possible that bone-marrow mast cells and heparin, which is synthesized ...
Progenitor mast cell line with rapid growth, no cytokine stimulation needed. Cell doubling time of 2–3 days Inventors: Arnold S. Kirshenbaum and Dean D. Metcalfe , both of NIAID ...
Mediators of anaphylactic reactions:- Aside from mast cell tryptase, which other chemical inflammatory mediators offer potential as indicators of anaphylaxis? Why this is important:- Although mast ...