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Lymphatic vessels regulate immune microenvironments in human and murine melanoma

Melody Swartz, Manuel Andreas Fankhauser

Lymphatic remodeling in tumor microenvironments correlates with progression and metastasis, and local lymphatic vessels play complex and poorly understood roles in tumor immunity. Tumor lymphangiogenesis is associated with increased immune suppression, yet ...

Amer Soc Clinical Investigation Inc2016

Collecting Lymphatic Vessel Permeability Facilitates Adipose Tissue Inflammation and Distribution of Antigen to Lymph Node-Homing Adipose Tissue Dendritic Cells

Melody Swartz, Wei Wang

Collecting lymphatic vessels (CLVs), surrounded by fat and endowed with contractile muscle and valves, transport lymph from tissues after it is absorbed into lymphatic capillaries. CLVs are not known to participate in immune responses. In this study, we ob ...

American Association of Immunologists ; Oxford University Press2015

Time-resolved imaging system for fluorescence-guided surgery with lifetime imaging capability

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Douglas Hanahan, Krisztian Homicsko, Riccardo Sinisi, François Eric Powolny

We present a single-photon camera for fluorescence imaging, with a time resolution better than 100ps, capable of providing both intensity and lifetime images. the camera was fabricated in standard CMOS technology. With this FluoCam we show the possibility ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2014

Targeting the tumor-draining lymph node with adjuvanted nanoparticles reshapes the anti-tumor immune response

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Efthymia Vokali

Accumulating evidence implicates the tumor-draining lymph node (TDLN) in tumor-induced immune escape, as it drains regulatory molecules and leukocytes from the tumor microenvironment. We asked whether targeted delivery of adjuvant to the TDLN, presumably a ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2014

Optimization and regeneration kinetics of lymphatic-specific photodynamic therapy in the mouse dermis

Melody Swartz, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska

Lymphatic vessels transport fluid, antigens, and immune cells to the lymph nodes to orchestrate adaptive immunity and maintain peripheral tolerance. Lymphangiogenesis has been associated with inflammation, cancer metastasis, autoimmunity, tolerance and tra ...

Springer2014

Steady-State Antigen Scavenging, Cross-Presentation, and CD8(+) T Cell Priming: A New Role for Lymphatic Endothelial Cells

Melody Swartz, Sachiko Hirosue, Marcela Rincón-Restrepo, Patricia Corthésy Henrioud, Efthymia Vokali

Until recently, the known roles of lymphatic endothelial cells (LECs) in immune modulation were limited to directing immune cell trafficking and passively transporting peripheral Ags to lymph nodes. Recent studies demonstrated that LECs can directly suppre ...

American Association of Immunologists ; Oxford University Press2014

Cooperative Roles of SDF-1 alpha and EGF Gradients on Tumor Cell Migration Revealed by a Robust 3D Microfluidic Model

Melody Swartz

Chemokine-mediated directed tumor cell migration within a three dimensional (3D) matrix, or chemoinvasion, is an important early step in cancer metastasis. Despite its clinical importance, it is largely unknown how cytokine and growth factor gradients with ...

Public Library of Science2013