Anatomy and function of the vertebral column lymphatic network in mice

Autor: Laurent Jacob, Ligia Simoes Braga Boisserand, Luiz Henrique Medeiros Geraldo, Jose de Brito Neto, Thomas Mathivet, Salli Antila, Besma Barka, Yunling Xu, Jean-Mickael Thomas, Juliette Pestel, Marie-Stéphane Aigrot, Eric Song, Harri Nurmi, Seyoung Lee, Kari Alitalo, Nicolas Renier, Anne Eichmann, Jean-Leon Thomas
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-16 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12568-w
Popis: The lymphatic vasculature is essential to maintain fluid homeostasis and immune surveillance, including in the brain where lymphatic vessels were only recently identified. Here, Jacob et al. provide an anatomical map of lymphatic vessels in the vertebral column, where they find these contribute to fluid drainage and immune responses.
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