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. 2021 Oct 12;9:752350. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2021.752350

TABLE 2.

Autoimmunity, mast cell association, and associated cancers.

Autoimmune disease Mast cell association Associated cancer References
Rheumatoid arthritis Inline graphic Mast cell mediators promote immune cell recruitment and angiogenesis
Inline graphic Mast cells increased in synovial compartments
Skin, lung, Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma Mellemkjaer et al., 1996; Lee et al., 2002, 2013; Robbie-Ryan and Brown, 2002; Askling et al., 2005; Hueber et al., 2010; Xu et al., 2010; Walker et al., 2012; Kashiwakura et al., 2013; Rivellese et al., 2015; Malmström et al., 2017; Aletaha and Smolen, 2018; Klein et al., 2018; Smolen et al., 2018; Min et al., 2020
Multiple sclerosis Inline graphic Mast cell mediators promote vascular permeability and immune cell recruitment
Inline graphic Mast cells present at sites of inflammatory demyelination
Inline graphic Mast cell density is increased in MS plaques
Respiratory, urinary, breast, CNS, non-melanoma skin cancer Dietsch and Hinrichs, 1989; Galli et al., 1992; Brenner et al., 1994; Rozniecki et al., 1995; Ibrahim et al., 1996; Dimitriadou et al., 2000; Secor et al., 2000; Brown et al., 2002; Lock et al., 2002; Rottem and Mekori, 2005; Couturier et al., 2008; Sayed et al., 2008; Kingwell et al., 2012; Karagkouni et al., 2013; Sun et al., 2014; Grytten et al., 2020; Magyari and Sorensen, 2020
Type 1 diabetes Inline graphic Increase in pancreatic mast cell density that correlates with apoptotic beta cells Stomach, lung, liver, pancreas, kidney, endometrium, ovarian Esposito et al., 2001; Geoffrey et al., 2006; Vigneri et al., 2009; Martino et al., 2015; Solt and Burris, 2015; Betto et al., 2017; Sona et al., 2018; Suh and Kim, 2019
Inflammatory bowel disease Inline graphic Increased mast cell density in ileum
Inline graphic Increased histamine and histamine metabolites
Colorectal cancer, small bowel adenocarcinoma, intestinal lymphoma, anal cancer, cholangiocarcinoma Lloyd et al., 1975; Fox et al., 1990; Nolte et al., 1990; Braegger et al., 1992; Traynor et al., 1993; Crowe et al., 1997; Gelbmann et al., 1999; Lilja et al., 2000; Oprins et al., 2000; Weidenhiller et al., 2000; Sasaki et al., 2002; Winterkamp et al., 2002; He, 2004; Jacob et al., 2005; Strober et al., 2007; Bischoff, 2009; Kurashima et al., 2013; Axelrad et al., 2016