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Low c-kit expression of cultured mast cells of mi/mi genotype may be involved in their defective responses to fibroblasts that express the ligand for c-kit.
Blood - 15 Sept 1992
Ebi Y, Kanakura Y, Jippo-Kanemoto T, Tsujimura T, Furitsu T, Ikeda H, Adachi S, Kasugai T, Nomura S, Kanayama Y
Abstract excerpt
Mutant mice of mi/mi genotype are osteopetrotic and deficient in tissue mast cells due to a defect in osteoclasts and mast cells. In an effort to further understand the mechanisms behind why mi/mi mouse-derived cultured mast cells (mi/mi-CMC) responded to interleukin-3 (IL-3), but not to the prol...
Topics
- 3T3 Cells
- Animals
- Cell Differentiation
- Cell Division
- Cells, Cultured
- Chymases
- Female
- Fibroblasts
- Genotype
- Male
- Mast Cells
- Mastocytosis
- Mice
- Mice, Mutant Strains
- Osteopetrosis
- Phenotype