@article{5a8ef58a5fdc4a1b9fa9a76e4c38819e,
title = "Establishment of the culture model system that reflects the process of terminal differentiation of connective tissue-type mast cells",
abstract = "To understand physiological roles of tissue mast cells, we established a culture system where bone marrow-derived immature mast cells differentiate into the connective tissue-type mast cell (CTMC)-like cells through modifying the previous co-culture system with Swiss 3T3 fibroblasts. Our system was found to reproducibly mimic the differentiation of CTMCs on the basis of several criteria, such as granule maturation and sensitivity to cationic secretagogues. The gene expression profile obtained by the microarray analyses was found to reflect many aspects of the differentiation. Our system is thus helpful to gain deeper insights into terminal differentiation of CTMCs.",
author = "Hirotsugu Takano and Shunsuke Nakazawa and Yasushi Okuno and Naritoshi Shirata and Sohken Tsuchiya and Takayuki Kainoh and Seigoh Takamatsu and Kazuyuki Furuta and Yoshitaka Taketomi and Yuko Naito and Hiromu Takematsu and Yasunori Kozutsumi and Gozoh Tsujimoto and Makoto Murakami and Ichiro Kudo and Atsushi Ichikawa and Kazuhisa Nakayama and Yukihiko Sugimoto and Satoshi Tanaka",
note = "Funding Information: This study was supported in part by 21st Century COE Program “Knowledge Information Infrastructure for Genome Science”, a grant from Uehara Memorial Foundation, Naito Foundation, Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences, Sankyo Foundation of Life Science, and by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, Sports and Technology of Japan and from the Ministry of Health and Labor of Japan. ",
year = "2008",
month = apr,
day = "30",
doi = "10.1016/j.febslet.2008.03.033",
language = "English",
volume = "582",
pages = "1444--1450",
journal = "FEBS Letters",
issn = "0014-5793",
publisher = "John Wiley and Sons Inc.",
number = "10",
}