Ultrastructural analysis of human skin biopsy specimens from patients receiving recombinant human stem cell factor: subcutaneous injection of rhSCF induces dermal mast cell degranulation and granulocyte recruitment at the injection site

The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
A M DvorakS J Galli

Abstract

We performed an ultrastructural analysis of 10 skin biopsy specimens that had been obtained from three women who were undergoing daily subcutaneous dosing with recombinant methionyl-human stem cell factor (rhSCF) as part of a phase I clinical trial. The biopsy specimens were obtained at sites of subcutaneous administration of rhSCF, within approximately 1 to 2 hours of rhSCF injection, and, at the same time, at contralateral control sites that had not been directly injected with rhSCF. We previously reported that subcutaneous dosing with rhSCF in these subjects induced the local development of a wheal and flare response, which was associated with evidence of mast cell degranulation, as well as a systemic increase in numbers of cutaneous mast cells. The present electron microscopic analysis revealed that all biopsies of swollen, erythematous rhSCF-injected sites exhibited anaphylactic degranulation of both mature and immature mast cells, an acute inflammatory response characterized by the migration of neutrophils, basophils (some of which exhibited evidence of piecemeal degranulation), and eosinophils through blood vessel walls into the perivascular and extravascular spaces, and edema and fibrin deposition within the interstitiu...Continue Reading

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