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Growth Factors Engineered for Super-Affinity to the Extracellular Matrix Enhance Tissue Healing

Mikaël Martino, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Stéphanie Elisabeth Metzger, Priscilla Suhasna Maithili Briquez, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Jeffrey James Rice, Esra Güç, Federico Tortelli

Growth factors (GFs) are critical in tissue repair, but their translation to clinical use has been modest. Physiologically, GF interactions with extracellular matrix (ECM) components facilitate localized and spatially regulated signaling; therefore, we rea ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2014

Modeling Tumor Microenvironments In Vitro

Melody Swartz, Mingming Wu

Tumor progression depends critically upon the interactions between the tumor cells and their microenvironment. The tumor microenvironment is heterogeneous and dynamic; it consists of extracellular matrix, stromal cells, immune cells, progenitor cells, and ...

Asme2014

Introduction to the special issue on lymphangiogenesis in inflammation

Melody Swartz

Springer2014

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

Melody Swartz, Patricia Corthésy Henrioud, Sachiko Hirosue, Marcela Rincón-Restrepo, Amanda Waite Lund, Efthymia Vokali, Vidya Raghavan

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

Lymph node stromal cells acquire peptide-MHCII complexes from dendritic cells and induce antigen-specific CD4(+) T cell tolerance

Melody Swartz, Lambert Charles François Potin

Dendritic cells (DCs), and more recently lymph node stromal cells (LNSCs), have been described to tolerize self-reactive CD8(+) T cells in LNs. Although LNSCs express MHCII, it is unknown whether they can also impact CD4(+) T cell functions. We show that t ...

Rockefeller Univ Press2014

Emerging roles of lymphatic endothelium in regulating adaptive immunity

Melody Swartz, Catherine Mary Card

Emerging research on the roles of stromal cells in modulating adaptive immune responses has included a new focus on lymphatic endothelial cells (LECs). LECs are presumably the first cells that come into direct contact with peripheral antigens, cytokines, d ...

American Society for Clinical Investigation2014

Long-term Intravital Immunofluorescence Imaging of Tissue Matrix Components with Epifluorescence and Two-photon Microscopy

Melody Swartz, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Amanda Waite Lund, Manuel Andreas Fankhauser

Besides being a physical scaffold to maintain tissue morphology, the extracellular matrix (ECM) is actively involved in regulating cell and tissue function during development and organ homeostasis. It does so by acting via biochemical, biomechanical, and b ...

Journal Of Visualized Experiments2014

Enhancing Efficacy of Anticancer Vaccines by Targeted Delivery to Tumor-Draining Lymph Nodes

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Alexandre de Titta, Marie Ballester, Patricia Corthésy Henrioud, Pedro Romero, Laura Jeanbart

The sentinel or tumor-draining lymph node (tdLN) serves as a metastatic niche for many solid tumors and is altered via tumor-derived factors that support tumor progression and metastasis. tdLNs are often removed surgically, and therapeutic vaccines against ...

Amer Assoc Cancer Research2014

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

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Susan Thomas, Amanda Waite Lund, 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

Inflammatory lymphangiogenesis in postpartum breast tissue remodeling

Melody Swartz

Like many cancers, mammary carcinomas use lymphatic vessels to disseminate, and numerous clinical and experimental studies have documented a strong correlation between peritumoral lymphangiogenesis and tumor dissemination. At the same time, many other fact ...

American Society for Clinical Investigation2014

Materials and protein engineering approaches for modulating immunity

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Alexandre de Titta, Marie Ballester, Stephane Kontos, Kristen Lorentz, Alizée Jéléna Grimm, Laura Jeanbart, David Scott Wilson, Kym Lorenz Brünggel

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Immunomodulatory Roles of Lymphatic Vessels in Cancer Progression

Melody Swartz

Lymphatic vessels in the tumor microenvironment are known to foster tumor metastasis in many cancers, and they can undergo activation, hyperplasia, and lymphangiogenesis in the tumor microenvironment and in the tumor-draining lymph node. The mechanism unde ...

Amer Assoc Cancer Research2014

Peripherally Administered Nanoparticles Target Monocytic Myeloid Cells, Secondary Lymphoid Organs and Tumors in Mice

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Alexandre de Titta, Stephane Kontos, Iraklis Kourtis, Sachiko Hirosue

Nanoparticles have been extensively developed for therapeutic and diagnostic applications. While the focus of nanoparticle trafficking in vivo has traditionally been on drug delivery and organ-level biodistribution and clearance, recent work in cancer biol ...

Public Library of Science2013

Tumor-associated lymphatic vessels: More than an escape route

Melody Swartz

Japanese Pharmacological Soc2013

Nanoparticle conjugation of CpG enhances adjuvancy for cellular immunity and memory recall at low dose

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Alexandre de Titta, Marie Ballester, Ziad Julier, Laura Jeanbart

In subunit vaccines, strong CD8(+) T-cell responses are desired, yet they are elusive at reasonable adjuvant doses. We show that targeting adjuvant to the lymph node (LN) via ultrasmall polymeric nanoparticles (NPs), which rapidly drain to the LN after int ...

National Academy of Sciences2013

Intravital Immunofluorescence for Visualizing the Microcirculatory and Immune Microenvironments in the Mouse Ear Dermis

Melody Swartz, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Amanda Waite Lund, Jeremy Teo, Scott Oliver

Visualizing the dynamic behaviors of immune cells in living tissue has dramatically increased our understanding of how cells interact with their surroundings, contributing important insights into mechanisms of leukocyte trafficking, tumor cell invasion, an ...

Public Library of Science2013

VEGFR-3 Neutralization Inhibits Ovarian Lymphangiogenesis, Follicle Maturation, and Murine Pregnancy

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Jong Eun Ihm, Joseph Rutkowski, Miriella Carmela Pasquier, Didier Trono, Seung Tae Lee, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Vivianne Greenwood

Lymphatic vessels surround follicles within the ovary, but their roles in folliculogenesis and pregnancy, as well as the necessity of Lymphangiogenesis in follicle maturation and health, are undefined. We used systemic delivery of mF4-31C1, a specific anta ...

Elsevier Science Inc2013

Normal Dendritic Cell Mobilization to Lymph Nodes under Conditions of Severe Lymphatic Hypoplasia

Melody Swartz, Joseph Rutkowski

To address the requirement for lymphatic capillaries in dendritic cell (DC) mobilization from skin to lymph nodes (LNs), we used mice bearing one inactivated allele of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 3 (VEGFR3) where skin lymphatic capillaries ...

American Association of Immunologists ; Oxford University Press2013

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

Melody Swartz, Mingming Wu

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

Tunable T cell immunity towards a protein antigen using polymersomes vs. solid-core nanoparticles

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Armando Stano, Karen Dane

Using poly(propylene sulfide) (PPS) and poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) as components of a nanocarrier platform, we sought to compare immune responses induced by PPS-bl-PEG polymersomes (PSs; watery-core structures, with antigen incorporated within the PSs) an ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2013

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