New Concepts about the Mast Cell

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 328, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 257-265

  Flier, Jeffrey S ^a   Underhill, Lisa H ^a   Galli, Stephen J ^b  

^a Harvard Medical School ^*

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ANIMAL MODEL; CELL FUNCTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GRANULOCYTE; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE MIGRATION; MAST CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN MANIFESTATION; ANIMAL; BASOPHIL; BIOSYNTHESIS; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SKIN;

ANIMAL; BASOPHILS; CYTOKINES; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LEUKOCYTES; MAST CELLS; SKIN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

EID: 0027925168     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199301283280408     Document Type: Review

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