Publication Date:
1989-01-06
Description:
Antigen (egg albumin) injections, which stimulate mucosal mast cells to secrete mediators, were paired with an audiovisual cue. After reexposure to the audiovisual cue, a mediator (rat mast cell protease II) was measured with a sensitive and specific assay. Animals reexposed to only the audiovisual cue released a quantity of protease not significantly different from animals reexposed to both the cue and the antigen; these groups released significantly more protease than animals that had received the cue and antigen in a noncontingent manner. The results support a role for the central nervous system as a functional effector of mast cell function in the allergic state.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉MacQueen, G -- Marshall, J -- Perdue, M -- Siegel, S -- Bienenstock, J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Jan 6;243(4887):83-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2911721" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Acoustic Stimulation
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Animals
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*Conditioning, Classical
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Mast Cells/*enzymology/immunology
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Ovalbumin
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Photic Stimulation
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Rats
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Reference Values
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Serine Endopeptidases/*secretion
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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