Mast cells in asthma: biomarker and therapeutic target.

Affiliations: Département d’Immunologie, Unité des Anticorps en Thérapie et Pathologie, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), U1222, Paris, France. The Airway Clinical Research Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. Sandler Center for Basic Asthma Research, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. Dept of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.