Age-related changes in dermal mast cell prevalence in BALB/c mice: Functional importance and correlation with dermal mast cell expression of Kit

Immunology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 352-356

  Hart, P H ^a   Grimbaldeston, M A ^a   Hosszu, E K ^a   Swift, G J ^a   Noonan, F P ^b   Finlay Jones, J J ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; FEMALE; IMMUNOREGULATION; MAST CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DERMIS; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MAST CELLS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0032751559     PISSN: 00192805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1999.00897.x     Document Type: Article

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