Mast cells in the skin of normal, hairless and athymic mice
- 1 February 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
- Vol. 32 (2) , 171-172
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01937747
Abstract
The skin of congenitally athymicnu/nu mice is rich in mast cells which stain metachromatically, contain histamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine, and participate in the PCA reaction. Mast cells of athymic mice have thus the attributes of normal mast cells.Keywords
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