Abnormal mast cells in mice deficient in a heparin-synthesizing enzyme

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6746, 1999, Pages 773-776

  Forsberg, Erik ^a   Pejler, Gunnar ^b   Ringvall, Maria ^a   Lunderius, Carolina ^a   Tomasini Johansson, Bianca ^b   Kusche Gullberg, Marion ^a   Eriksson, Inger ^b   Ledin, Johan ^b   Hellman, Lars ^a   Kjellén, Lena ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; GENE DISRUPTION; MAST CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETORY GRANULE;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHYMASES; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; GENOTYPE; HEPARIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; MAST CELLS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTAGENESIS; NEUTROPHILS; PERITONEUM; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; STEM CELLS; SULFATES; SULFOTRANSFERASES;

EID: 0033584324     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/23488     Document Type: Article

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