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Different interaction of mast cells with human endothelial cells and fibroblasts Volume 10, numéro 2, March 2000

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Department of Dermatology, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, 880 Kitakobayashi, Mibu, 321-0293 Tochigi, Japan. tohtsuka@dokkyomed.ac.jp
  • Page(s) : 115-21
  • Année de parution : 2000

Mast cells (MC) have been implicated in the pathogenesis of a number of chronic inflammatory conditions that result in vascular injury and fibrosis such as keloids, hypertrophic scars, systemic sclerosis (SSc), and chronic graft-versus-host disease [1]. In chronic graft-versus-host disease, MC undergo changes in numbers and morphology that correlate with the course of fibrosis development [2]. Recent studies have reported several results [...]