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Chronically KIT-stimulated clonally-derived human mast cells show heterogeneity in different tissue microenvironments.
The Journal of investigative dermatology - 1 May 1997
Longley B J, Tyrrell L, Lu S, Ma Y, Klump V, Murphy G F
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Human mast cell precursors arise in the bone marrow and circulate to different tissue microenvironments, where they develop distinct phenotypes that may be characterized by differential expression of the serine protease, chymase. The growth and development of mast cells is stimulated by mast cell growth factor, which is also known as kit ligand because its obligate receptor is KIT, the protein product of the...
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