IgE alone promotes human lung mast cell survival through the autocrine production of IL-6
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Mast cells play a key role in asthma and recent evidence indicates that their ongoing activation in this disease is mediated, in part, <it>via </it>IgE in the absence of antigen. In this study we have examined whether IgE...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2008-01-01
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| Series: | BMC Immunology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2172/9/2 |