The emerging importance of lymphatics in health and disease: an NIH workshop report

BJ Mehrara, AJ Radtke, GJ Randolph… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
The lymphatic system (LS) is composed of lymphoid organs and a network of vessels that
transport interstitial fluid, antigens, lipids, cholesterol, immune cells, and other materials in …

Lessons of vascular specialization from secondary lymphoid organ lymphatic endothelial cells

S Arroz-Madeira, T Bekkhus, MH Ulvmar… - Circulation …, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Secondary lymphoid organs, such as lymph nodes, harbor highly specialized and
compartmentalized niches. These niches are optimized to facilitate the encounter of naive …

Lymph node lymphatic endothelial cells as multifaceted gatekeepers in the immune system

A Takeda, M Salmi, S Jalkanen - Trends in Immunology, 2023 - cell.com
Single-cell technologies have recently allowed the identification of multiple lymphatic
endothelial cell (LEC) subsets in subcapsular, paracortical, medullary, and other lymph …

Immunization-induced antigen archiving enhances local memory CD8+ T cell responses following an unrelated viral infection

TA Doan, TS Forward, JB Schafer, ED Lucas, I Fleming… - npj Vaccines, 2024 - nature.com
Antigens from viruses or immunizations can persist or are archived in lymph node stromal
cells such as lymphatic endothelial cells (LEC) and fibroblastic reticular cells (FRC). Here …

Modulating antigen availability in lymphoid organs to shape the humoral immune response to vaccines

A Aung, DJ Irvine - The Journal of Immunology, 2024 - journals.aai.org
Primary immune responses following vaccination are initiated in draining lymph nodes,
where naive T and B cells encounter Ag and undergo coordinated steps of activation. For …

Trafficking and retention of protein antigens across systems and immune cell types

TA Doan, T Forward, BAJ Tamburini - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2022 - Springer
In response to infection or vaccination, the immune system initially responds non-specifically
to the foreign insult (innate) and then develops a specific response to the foreign antigen …

Immunomodulatory properties of the lymphatic endothelium in the tumor microenvironment

C Viúdez-Pareja, E Kreft… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The tumor microenvironment (TME) is an intricate complex and dynamic structure composed
of various cell types, including tumor, stromal and immune cells. Within this complex …

MARCO+ lymphatic endothelial cells sequester arthritogenic alphaviruses to limit viremia and viral dissemination

KS Carpentier, RM Sheridan, CJ Lucas… - The EMBO …, 2021 - embopress.org
Viremia in the vertebrate host is a major determinant of arboviral reservoir competency,
transmission efficiency, and disease severity. However, immune mechanisms that control …

[HTML][HTML] Chikungunya virus infection disrupts lymph node lymphatic endothelial cell composition and function via MARCO

CJ Lucas, RM Sheridan, GV Reynoso, BJ Davenport… - JCI insight, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Infection with chikungunya virus (CHIKV) causes disruption of draining lymph node (dLN)
organization, including paracortical relocalization of B cells, loss of the B cell–T cell border …

Vaccination with mycobacterial lipid loaded nanoparticle leads to lipid antigen persistence and memory differentiation of antigen-specific T cells

E Morgun, J Zhu, S Almunif, S Bobbala, MS Aguilar… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection elicits both protein and lipid antigen-specific T
cell responses. However, the incorporation of lipid antigens into subunit vaccine strategies …