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ArticleEuropean journal of immunology2025

Mast Cells Are Not Essential for Pubertal Mammary Gland Branching.

Simran Kapoor, Clara M Munz, Jimmy Marsden, Cyril Carvalho, Holly Tinsley, Marlene Magalhaes Pinto, Bert Malengier-Devlies, Solvig Becker, Guillaume Seuzaret, Katelyn Patatsos and 5 more

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Article in European journal of immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Simran KapoorInstitute For Regeneration and Repair, Centre For Reproductive Health, Centre For Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Clara M MunzInstitute For Regeneration and Repair, Centre For Reproductive Health, Centre For Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4823-7598
Jimmy MarsdenInstitute For Regeneration and Repair, Centre For Reproductive Health, Centre For Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Cyril CarvalhoInstitute For Regeneration and Repair, Centre For Reproductive Health, Centre For Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Holly TinsleyInstitute For Regeneration and Repair, Centre For Reproductive Health, Centre For Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Marlene Magalhaes PintoInstitute For Regeneration and Repair, Centre For Reproductive Health, Centre For Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Bert Malengier-DevliesInstitute For Regeneration and Repair, Centre For Reproductive Health, Centre For Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3527-1145
Solvig BeckerInstitute For Regeneration and Repair, Centre For Reproductive Health, Centre For Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Guillaume SeuzaretInstitute For Regeneration and Repair, Centre For Reproductive Health, Centre For Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Katelyn PatatsosInstitute For Regeneration and Repair, Centre For Reproductive Health, Centre For Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9980-8349
Ramazan AkyolAix-Marseille University, CNRS, INSERM, Centre d'immunologie De Marseille-Luminy (CIML), Marseille, France.
Amy B PedersonInstitute of Ecology and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Gillian WilsonInstitute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9513-8437
Marc DalodAix-Marseille University, CNRS, INSERM, Centre d'immunologie De Marseille-Luminy (CIML), Marseille, France.
Rebecca GentekInstitute For Regeneration and Repair, Centre For Reproductive Health, Centre For Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Funding

Cancer Research UKCollege of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh: Chancellor's FellowshipKennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research: Senior Research Fellowship KENN 19 20 07Pathogen & Global Health PhD studentshipWellcome Trust: Host
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mast cells are long-lived, tissue-resident immune cells of the myeloid lineage with cardinal functions in allergy and atopic disease. They are now increasingly recognized also for protective roles, for example against infections and venoms. Other functions originally assigned to mast cells in development and physiology, however, have been refuted, and for yet others, the true contribution of mast cells remains uncertain. Mast cells have been implicated in promoting ductal branching in the pubertal mammary gland, the organ that produces and secretes milk in mammals, but these findings are based on mouse models that are not mast cell-specific. In this study, we therefore re-addressed the impact of mast cells on mammary gland branching using several complementary genetic models, including a newly generated transgenic mouse line (Ms4a2

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Mammary Glands, AnimalMast CellsSexual MaturationAnimalsFemaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutMice, Transgenicbranchingmammary glandmast cellspuberty

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