Does the aberrant expression of CD2 and CD25 by skin mast cells truly correlate with systemic involvement in patients presenting with mastocytosis in the skin?
Although sMCs displayed immunoreactivity for one of the neoplastic antigens in the majority of SM patients, the aberrant CD2 and/or CD25 expression on sMCs is not as indicative of SM as the BMMC immunophenotype.
The decrease in tissue inflammation during anti-TNF-α therapy is not due to immediate killing of TNF-α-producing cells but rather results from a rapid downregulation of the pathogenic IL-12/IL-23-driven immune response.