Papain Activates Human Mast Cells to Release Proinflammatory Mediators via its Enzymatic Activity

Affiliations

• ¹ Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Unit, The Institute for Drug Research, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
• ² Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Laboratory of Behavioral Genetics, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
• ³ Nava Dayan LLC, Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA.
• ⁴ Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Unit, The Institute for Drug Research, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. Electronic address: francescal@ekmd.huji.ac.il.