Mast cells are key promoters of contact allergy that mediate the adjuvant effects of haptens

¹Medical Faculty Carl-Gustav Carus, Institute for Immunology, University of Technology Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany;

²Department of Dermatology, University of Cologne, 50937 Cologne, Germany;

³Institute for Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany;

⁴Department for Infection Biology, University Clinic Erlangen, 91054 Erlangen, Germany;

⁵University of Technology Dresden, CRTD/DFG Centre for Regenerative Therapies, 01307 Dresden, Germany;

⁶Faculty of Life Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK;

⁷Institute for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Centre of the Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany