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
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- 10 January 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Immunology
- Vol. 108 (1) , 89-97
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2567.2003.01559.x
Abstract
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 c...Keywords
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