Degranulation of dermal mast cells: Effects of fixation and of antidromic nervous impulses on two histochemically identified cell-types

Inhibitory effect of ganglioside on mast

Inhibitory effect of ganglioside on mastoparan-induced cytotoxicity and degranulation in lipid raft of connective tissue type mast cell

✍ Hirofumi Nishikawa; Seiichi Kitani 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 426 KB

## Abstract Antihistamine, the most important drug for __Hymenoptera__ stinging, cannot attenuate cytotoxicity and mast cell direct activation by mastoparan that is the most abundant polypeptides in the venoms of social wasps. The aim of this study was to investigate whether gangliosides inhibit th