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Mucosal Mast Cells as Key Effector Cells in Food Allergies
Mucosal mast cells (MMCs) localized in the intestinal mucosa play a key role in the development of IgE-mediated food allergies. Recent advances have revealed that MMCs are a distinctly different population from connective tissue mast cells localized in skin and other connective tissues. MMCs are ind...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8834119/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35159139 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells11030329 |
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author | Nakano, Nobuhiro Kitaura, Jiro |
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description | Mucosal mast cells (MMCs) localized in the intestinal mucosa play a key role in the development of IgE-mediated food allergies. Recent advances have revealed that MMCs are a distinctly different population from connective tissue mast cells localized in skin and other connective tissues. MMCs are inducible and transient cells that arise from bone marrow-derived mast cell progenitors, and their numbers increase rapidly during mucosal allergic inflammation. However, the mechanism of the dramatic expansion of MMCs and their cell functions are not well understood. Here, we review recent findings on the mechanisms of MMC differentiation and expansion, and we discuss the potential for the inducers of differentiation and expansion to serve as targets for food allergy therapy. In addition, we also discuss the mechanism by which oral immunotherapy, a promising treatment for food allergy patients, induces unresponsiveness to food allergens and the roles of MMCs in this process. Research focusing on MMCs should provide useful information for understanding the underlying mechanisms of food allergies in order to further advance the treatment of food allergies. |
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spelling | pubmed-88341192022-02-12 Mucosal Mast Cells as Key Effector Cells in Food Allergies Nakano, Nobuhiro Kitaura, Jiro Cells Review Mucosal mast cells (MMCs) localized in the intestinal mucosa play a key role in the development of IgE-mediated food allergies. Recent advances have revealed that MMCs are a distinctly different population from connective tissue mast cells localized in skin and other connective tissues. MMCs are inducible and transient cells that arise from bone marrow-derived mast cell progenitors, and their numbers increase rapidly during mucosal allergic inflammation. However, the mechanism of the dramatic expansion of MMCs and their cell functions are not well understood. Here, we review recent findings on the mechanisms of MMC differentiation and expansion, and we discuss the potential for the inducers of differentiation and expansion to serve as targets for food allergy therapy. In addition, we also discuss the mechanism by which oral immunotherapy, a promising treatment for food allergy patients, induces unresponsiveness to food allergens and the roles of MMCs in this process. Research focusing on MMCs should provide useful information for understanding the underlying mechanisms of food allergies in order to further advance the treatment of food allergies. MDPI 2022-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8834119/ /pubmed/35159139 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells11030329 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Nakano, Nobuhiro Kitaura, Jiro Mucosal Mast Cells as Key Effector Cells in Food Allergies |
title | Mucosal Mast Cells as Key Effector Cells in Food Allergies |
title_full | Mucosal Mast Cells as Key Effector Cells in Food Allergies |
title_fullStr | Mucosal Mast Cells as Key Effector Cells in Food Allergies |
title_full_unstemmed | Mucosal Mast Cells as Key Effector Cells in Food Allergies |
title_short | Mucosal Mast Cells as Key Effector Cells in Food Allergies |
title_sort | mucosal mast cells as key effector cells in food allergies |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8834119/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35159139 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells11030329 |
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