The effect of recombinant stem cell factor on human skin and lung mast cells and basophil leukocytes

Stem cell factor is encoded at the SI locus of the mouse and is the ligand for the c-kit tyrosine kinase receptor

1990 • 1,448 citations

Identification of a ligand for the c-kit proto-oncogene

1990 • 970 citations

Molecular cloning of mast cell growth factor, a hematopoietin that is active in both membrane bound and soluble forms

1990 • 870 citations

Identification, purification, and biological characterization of hematopoietic stem cell factor from buffalo rat liver-conditioned medium

1990 • 837 citations

The kit ligand: A cell surface molecule altered in steel mutant fibroblasts

1990 • 777 citations

Biologic properties of homogeneous interleukin 3. I. Demonstration of WEHI-3 growth factor activity, mast cell growth factor activity, P cell-stimulating factor activity, colony-stimulating factor activity, and histamine-producing cell-stimulating factor activity

1983 • 702 citations

Interleukin 10: a novel stimulatory factor for mast cells and their progenitors.

1991 • 514 citations

Induction of differentiation of human mast cells from bone marrow and peripheral blood mononuclear cells by recombinant human stem cell factor/kit-ligand in long-term culture

1992 • 436 citations

Cytokine production by mast cells and basophils

1991 • 344 citations

The human recombinant c-kit receptor ligand, rhSCF, induces mediator release from human cutaneous mast cells and enhances IgE-dependent mediator release from both skin mast cells and peripheral blood basophils.

1992 • 308 citations

Candidate ligand for the c-kit transmembrane kinase receptor: KL, a fibroblast derived growth factor stimulates mast cells and erythroid progenitors.

1990 • 304 citations

Effect of IL-3 and stem cell factor on the appearance of human basophils and mast cells from CD34+ pluripotent progenitor cells.

1992 • 289 citations

Stem cell factor is a chemotactic factor for human mast cells.

1994 • 282 citations

The c-kit receptor, stem cell factor, and mast cells. What each is teaching us about the others.

1993 • 279 citations

c-kit ligand: a unique potentiator of mediator release by human lung mast cells.

1992 • 275 citations

Development of human mast cells from umbilical cord blood cells by recombinant human and murine c-kit ligand.

1993 • 264 citations

The Steel factor

1992 • 201 citations

A cloned MCGF cDNA encodes a multilineage hematopoietic growth factor: multiple activities of interleukin 3.

1985 • 174 citations

Development of human mast cells in vitro.

1989 • 165 citations

Soluble stem cell factor in human serum

1993 • 151 citations

Mechanism of kit ligand, phorbol ester, and calcium-induced down-regulation of c-kit receptors in mast cells

1993 • 139 citations

THE EFFECT OF ALKALINE EARTH CATIONS ON THE RELEASE OF HISTAMINE FROM RAT PERITONEAL MAST CELLS TREATED WITH COMPOUND 48/80 AND PEPTIDE 401

1979 • 135 citations

Isolation and properties of cardiac and other mast cells from the rat and guinea-pig

1985 • 83 citations

In vitro duplication and in vivo cure of mast-cell deficiency of Sl/Sld mutant mice by cloned 3T3 fibroblasts.

1989 • 80 citations

Specific Activation of Human Mast Cells by the Ligand for c-Kit: Comparison between Lung, Uterus and Heart Mast Cells

1993 • 62 citations

Development of human mast cells from their progenitors

1993 • 46 citations

Regulation of mast cell differentiation

1989 • 43 citations

Effect of cytokines on mediator release from human dispersed lung mast cells

1994 • 34 citations

Functional Heterogeneity of Human Mast Cells

1991 • 31 citations

The mast cell-committed progenitor. II. W/Wv mice do not make mast cell-committed progenitors and S1/S1d fibroblasts do not support development of normal mast cell-committed progenitors.

1989 • 29 citations

Protamine-Induced Histamine Release in Human Skin Mast Cells

1990 • 23 citations

Studies of the intracellular Ca2+ levels in human adult skin mast cells activated by the ligand for the human c-kit receptor and anti-IgE

1994 • 23 citations

Mast cell heterogeneity in man: unique functional properties of skin mast cells in response to a range of polycationic stimuli

1992 • 22 citations

Activation and inhibition of mediator release from skin mast cells: a review of in vitro experiments

1994 • 15 citations

Differentiation of Human Mast Cells from Bone‐Marrow and Cord‐Blood Progenitor Cells by Factors Produced by a Mouse Stromal Cell Line

1994 • 14 citations

Effects of mast cell growth factor, interleukin-3, and interleukin-6 on human primitive hematopoietic progenitors from bone marrow and cord blood.

1993 • 14 citations

Regulation of Mast Cell Proliferation, Maturation and Function by Stem Cell Factor, a Ligand for the c-<i>kit</i> Receptor

1992 • 9 citations

Effect of the c-<i>kit</i> Ligand on Mediator Release by Human Lung Mast Cells

1992 • 6 citations