“…Consistently, we and others have recently shown that mouse and human MC express a functional molecular clock similar to other peripheral cells, i.e. rhythmic expression of clock genes including Per1, Per2, Cry1, Bmal1, and Clock in murine jejunal MC, in freshly isolated mature as well as in long-term synchronized cultured hiMC (Baumann et al, 2013;Wang et al, 2011). Additionally, some mast cell-specific genes such as Mcpt-5, Mcpt-7, FcεRI ␣-chain and tryptase also exhibited circadian oscillation.…”