Mast Cells in Oral Premalignant Lesions & OSCC

Mast cells are multi-tasking cells. These enigmatic, multifaceted protagonists of natural immunity are functionally relevant to many more aspects of tissue physiology than just to the generation of inflammatory and vasodilatory responses. In the recent times their actions in various diseases have been investigated and have divulged many new facts owing to the plethora of cytokines secreted at different times under different conditions.