… Many chemokines have been reported and they are classified into two groups as pro-…
chemokines and lymphoid chemokines. BCA-1 has been classified as a lymphoid chemokine so far…

… Secondary lymphoid organs are divided into distinct regions through the generation of
chemokine gradients by stromal cells. In the lymph node (LN), these chemokine gradients allow …

… Located within lymphoid tissues, germinal centers are sites critical for the generation of B …
of germinal centers, activated B cells and select T cells must migrate into the germinal center …

… that chemokines are central to the development, organization and maintenance of lymphoid
… of homing, and implicates the action of distinct chemokines in compartmentalizing GCs. …

… CXCL13 positive cells in normal and reactive lymph nodes were also concentrated in the
germinal centers, including follicular dendritic cells, histiocytes, and rare small lymphocytes (…

… , lymph nodes, and Peyer’s patches. In spleen, RelB is expressed in periarteriolar lymphatic
sheaths, germinal centers … In contrast, expression of homing chemokines is strongly reduced …

… chemokine CXCL13 [chemokine (CXC motif) ligand 13] as a biomarker of germinal center …
plasma CXCL13 concentrations and germinal center frequencies in lymph nodes in a series of …

… Germinal centers (GCs) are organized lymphoid tissue microstructures where B cells … CXC
chemokine receptor type 5 (CXCR5) while losing the T cell zone–homing chemokine receptor …

… We conclude that the requirement for BLC to induce LTα1β2 is overridden in germinal
centres, most likely by T-cell-derived signals. CD40 signalling is necessary for germinal centre …

… chemokine CXCL13, a feature consistent with their specific localization in germinal centers.
… can express CXCL13 in germinal centers of secondary lymphoid tissues and chronically …