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Human mast cells arise from a common circulating progenitor.
The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology - 1 Aug 2013
Maaninka Katariina, Lappalainen Jani, Kovanen Petri T
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Human tissue mast cells (MCs) have the potential to express several neutral granule proteases, which are the most precise markers of the phenotypic heterogeneity of MCs. However, the full extent of such heterogeneity is limited by the fact that MCs containing either tryptase only or tryptase and chymase have long been considered to be the sole MC phenotypes. Moreover, the potential developmental...
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