. 2014 Mar 17;16(2):R72. doi: 10.1186/ar4512

Table 2.

Kinetic analysis of the numbers of mast cells in skeletal muscle in wild-type mice upon C protein-induced myositis induction

	Days after immunization
Site	Day 0	Day 10	Day 21
Endomysium	6.3 ± 1.0	10.5 ± 3.7	13.5 ± 7.4^a
Perivascular	2.2 ± 1.0	3.3 ± 1.0	5.0 ± 3.6^a
Perimysium	1.3 ± 1.3	3.3 ± 1.0	2.8 ± 0.5^a

Mast cells were identified as toluidine blue-positive cells. The number of mast cells in each mouse was expressed as the maximum number of cells/100× magnification field in quadriceps. ^aP <0.05 as compared with mast cell numbers at each site at day 0.