Stem cell factor is localized in, released from, and cleaved by human mast cells

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 163, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2799-2808

  De Paulis, Amato ^a   Minopoli, Giuseppina ^a   Arbustini, Eloisa ^b   De Crescenzo, Gennaro ^a   Dal Piaz, Fabrizio ^a   Pucci, Piero ^a   Russo, Tommaso ^a   Marone, Gianni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL ISOLATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EXOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTAMINE METABOLISM; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MAST CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SECRETORY GRANULE; SYSTEMIC MASTOCYTOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHYMASES; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; EXOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; HISTAMINE RELEASE; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; LUNG; MALE; MAST CELLS; MASTOCYTOSIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SKIN; STEM CELL FACTOR;

EID: 0033197957     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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