Molecular genetics and development of mast cells: Implications for molecular medicine

Molecular Medicine Today

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 131-137

  Födinger, Manuela ^a   Mannhalter, Christine ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAST CELL; MASTOCYTOSIS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LEUKEMIA, MAST-CELL; MAST CELLS; MAST-CELL SARCOMA; MASTOCYTOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MICROPHTHALMOS; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; PROTEIN-TYROSINE-PHOSPHATASE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RADIATION CHIMERA; SHP1 PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0031084802     PISSN: 13574310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1357-4310(96)10061-7     Document Type: Review

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