Mast cells in airway allergies: a new vision on a long-studied cell KU Leuven
The airway epithelium harbors a huge amount of mast cells which play a crucial role in host defense as they can adapt their function to the microenvironment in which the reside. Mast cells react to external and internal stimuli thanks to multiple receptors they express and carry out effector and regulatory tasks by different mediators they release. The most studied function of mast cells is associated with allergy through the binding of ...