%0 Journal Article
%T Reply
%A Ana Olivera
%A null
%J Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
%D 2019
%R 10.1016/j.jaci.2018.09.015
%X We thank Theoharides and Leeman1 for their positive comments on our review,2 which
focused on recent developments in the understanding of human mast cell biology. It
is gratifying to see this large number of recent scientific reports from which we
selected only a portion of many interesting and novel experimental approaches and
observations. The understanding of mast cell biology has lagged somewhat behind studies
on other effector cells because mast cells do not normally occur in blood, there is
no human condition characterized by the absence of mast cells in all tissues, and
there is no pharmacologic therapy that specifically and only silences mast cell function.
%U https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(18)31366-6/abstract