Human peripheral blood eosinophils express a functional c-kit receptor for stem cell factor that stimulates very late antigen 4 (VLA-4)-mediated cell adhesion to fibronectin and vascular cell adhesion molecule 1 (VCAM-1).

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Published in J Exp Med on July 21, 1997

Authors

Q Yuan1, K F Austen, D S Friend, M Heidtman, J A Boyce

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.

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Effects of cKit Inhibition by Imatinib in Patients With Severe Refractory Asthma (KIA) (KIA) | NCT01097694

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