Accumulation of Mast Cells in the Lesions and Effects of Antiallergic Drugs on the Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Figure 1
Immunohistochemical staining for human mast cell tryptase of serial sections of the lesional tissue from a patient with UC. (a) Lesional tissue from a patient with UC in active stage; (b) lesional tissue from the same patient with UC in remission; (c) adjacent control tissue from a healthy volunteer who visited our clinic for annual physical examination. Immunohistochemical staining for mast cell was performed with the protocol as described precisely in the text. Under 400x magnification.