Tissue-dependent differences in the asynchronous appearance of mast cells in normal mice and in congenic mast cell-deficient mice after infusion of normal bone marrow cells

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 316-321

  Du, T ^a,b   Friend, D S ^a,b   Austen, K F ^a,b   Katz, H R ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Seeley G Mudd Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Mast cells; Morphometrics; Ontogeny

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MAST CELL; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; SPLEEN; STOMACH MUCOSA;

EID: 0030064769     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1996.d01-610.x     Document Type: Article

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