F L Pearce, P B Boulos, H Y Lau, W L Liu, K R Tainsh
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Abstract
Mast cell heterogeneity in man is much less sharply defined than in the rodent but human cutaneous mast cells appear to be distinct in their histochemical properties, their reactivity to polycationic histamine liberators, and their relative lack of responsiveness to antiasthmatic chromones.