Regulation of mast cell phenotype by MITF

International Archives of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 106-109

  Kitamura, Yukihiko ^a   Morii, Eiichi ^a   Jippo, Tomoko ^a   Ito, Akihiko ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

C kit; Mast cell; Mast cell protease; Mitranscription factor; Stem cell factor

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; PROTEINASE; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENOTYPE; MAST CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MAST CELLS; MICE; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0036210870     PISSN: 10182438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000048178     Document Type: Article

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