title: Ultrastructure of human mast cells.
abstract: Ultrastructural studies of human mast cells define their organelles and the impact of environment, development and function on their ultrastructural morphology. The studies we review here implicate lipid bodies in eicosanoid and cytokine biology, and extend the functional repertoire of secretory-storage granules to synthesis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
authors.forename: Ann M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Dvorak
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008055:Lipids / Q000032:analysis; D008407:Mast Cells / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D022142:Secretory Vesicles / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure
chemical_list: D008055:Lipids