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Functional and phenotypic studies of two variants of a human mast cell line with a distinct set of mutations in the c-kit proto-oncogene.
Immunology - 1 Jan 2003
Sundström Magnus, Vliagoftis Harissios, Karlberg Peter, Butterfield Joseph H, Nilsson Kenneth, Metcalfe Dean D, Nilsson Gunnar
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The human mast cell line (HMC)-1 cell line is growth-factor independent because of a constitutive activity of the receptor tyrosine kinase Kit. Such deregulated Kit activity has also been suggested causative in gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) and mastocytosis. HMC-1 is the only established continuously growing human mast cell line and has therefore been widely employed for in vitro studies of human mast...
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