Mice
Mast cell deficient KitW−sh/W−sh (Sash) mice (on a C57BL/6 background,
purchased from Jackson Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA) were housed and bred in
the pathogen free animal facilities of The Medical School of the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. C57BL/6 Wild Type (WT) mice were purchased from
Harlan Laboratories Inc., Israel.
All murine experiments were approved by the Animal Experimentation
Ethics Committee of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and performed in
accordance with the guidelines of the committee.