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Blood, 1 April 2001, Vol. 97, No. 7, pp. 2045-2052

HEMATOPOIESIS

Human skin-derived mast cells can proliferate while retaining their characteristic functional and protease phenotypes

Naotomo Kambe, Michiyo Kambe, Jarema P. Kochan, and Lawrence B. Schwartz

From the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, and the Department of Metabolic Diseases, Hoffman-La Roche, Nutley, New Jersey.

Human mast cells in adult tissues have been thought to have limited, if any, proliferative potential. The current study examined mast cells obtained from adult skin and cultured in serum-free medium with recombinant human stem cell factor. During the first 4 weeks of culture, the percentages of mast cells increased from 10 to almost 100. After 8 weeks, a 150-fold increase in the number of mast cells was observed. When freshly dispersed mast cells were individually sorted onto human fibroblast monolayers and cultured for 3 weeks, one or more mast cells were detected in about two thirds of the wells, and in about two thirds of these wells the surviving mast cells showed evidence of proliferation, indicating most mast cells in skin can proliferate. Such mast cells all expressed high surface levels of Kit and Fcepsilon RI, each of which were functional, indicating IgE was not required for Fcepsilon RI expression on mast cells. Such mast cells also retained the MCTC protease phenotype of mast cells that normally reside in the dermis. After 4 to 8 weeks of culture these mast cells degranulated in response to substance P and compound 48/80, characteristics of skin-derived mast cells that persist outside of the cutaneous microenvironment.

© 2001 by The American Society of Hematology.
 

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