How to Use mast cell in a Sentence

mast cell

noun

• First, mast cells branched away from the early macrophages.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 25 May 2026
• Compared to mast cells elsewhere in the body, mast cells in the gut were primed to make leukotrienes.
  — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
• But other signals can summon mast cells, too, including pain.
  — ABC News, 27 June 2026
• Later, those mast cells split again, giving rise to red blood cells and prototypic T cells.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 25 May 2026
• Scientists have long known that allergens can activate mast cells.
  — ABC News, 27 June 2026
• For now, antihistamines and certain other drugs for hives can tamp down some itchiness triggered by mast cells.
  — ABC News, 27 June 2026
• Estrogen levels can influence mast cells, the white blood cells that sound the body’s alarm in response to allergens and threats.
  — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 29 May 2026
• Certain nutrients may even directly stabilize mast cells, the immune cells that drive hives.
  — Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 25 Aug. 2025
• In fact, mast cells are covered in receptors for estrogen and progesterone, Wada says.
  — Elizabeth Yuko, Flow Space, 29 Aug. 2025
• This happens because mast cells build up in your bone marrow and release chemical messengers that increase bone breakdown.
  — Brittany Dube, Health, 21 May 2026
• Changes in temperature can activate mast cells, thereby leading to symptoms.
  — Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 15 May 2026
• Stress and anxiety can activate mast cells and trigger symptoms in people with ISM.
  — Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 15 May 2026
• To understand what was happening in the skin, Kaplan’s team took a deeper look at mast cells, among the immune system’s first responders.
  — ABC News, 27 June 2026
• In the gut lining, intestinal mast cells take cues from other nearby epithelial cells, shifting activity to make more leukotrienes and less histamine.
  — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
• The culprit is mast cells, a type of white blood cell that releases histamine and other inflammatory chemicals, making skin red, itchy, and swollen.
  — Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 25 Aug. 2025
• This reaction occurs when mast cells release histamine—a chemical produced by the body that triggers allergic symptoms.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 June 2026
• Next, Platts-Mills sent some of the blood to the Mayo Clinic lab, which tested it for an enzyme called tryptase that’s made by immune cells called mast cells.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 14 Nov. 2025
• Heartbreak followed in 2024, when Rosie was diagnosed with aggressive mast cell cancer.
  — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 15 Mar. 2026
• Alcohol causes the release of chemicals from mast cells, leading to ISM symptoms.
  — Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 15 May 2026
• There are topical treatments that are antihistamines, mast cell stabilizers or a combination of both.
  — Neelam Patadia, The Conversation, 27 May 2026
• Those mast cells are the immune cells responsible for triggering the sneezing, itching, runny nose and watery eyes that allergy sufferers know well.
  — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2026
• Histamine is a chemical compound naturally produced by immune cells, including mast cells, in response to a threat like an allergen.
  — Kara Smythe, EverydayHealth.com, 15 May 2026
• This injectable medication targets your immune system and prevents mast cell activation.
  — Zia Sherrell, Health, 17 Feb. 2026
• But Kaplan also was intrigued by other labs’ findings that mast cells could fend off a common type of skin bacteria called Staphylococcus aureus.
  — ABC News, 27 June 2026
• Vaccines Vaccines can sometimes trigger mast cell activation in people with ISM.
  — Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 15 May 2026
• Alcohol Alcohol is a common trigger for mast cell activation in people with ISM.
  — Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 15 May 2026
• She was also diagnosed with mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), which causes allergic-type reactions to foods and environmental triggers.
  — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 30 May 2026
• The medication works by destabilizing mast cells, or allergy cells, to decrease allergic inflammation, says Rauno Joks, MD, an allergist and immunologist at NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County in Brooklyn, New York, who was not involved in the study.
  — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 11 Sep. 2025