Recherche

Afficher tous les résultats pour

Accueil

Personne

Melody Swartz

Cette personne a quitté l’EPFL

À propos
Confidentialité
Mentions légales

Graph Chatbot

Publications associées (134)

Page 4 sur 7

Nano-sized drug-loaded micelles deliver payload to lymph node immune cells and prolong allograft survival

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Alice Anna Tomei

By delivering immunomodulatory drugs in vivo directly to lymph nodes draining an injection site, an opportunity exists to increase drug bioavailability to local immune cells. Importantly, particles smaller than 100 nm are efficiently transported through ly ...

Elsevier2011

VEGF-C Promotes Immune Tolerance in B16 Melanomas and Cross-Presentation of Tumor Antigen by Lymph Node Lymphatics

Melody Swartz, Sachiko Hirosue

Tumor expression of the lymphangiogenic factor VEGF-C is correlated with metastasis and poor prognosis, and although VEGF-C enhances transport to the draining lymph node (dLN) and antigen exposure to the adaptive immune system, its role in tumor immunity r ...

Elsevier2012

Vaccine nanocarriers: Coupling intracellular pathways and cellular biodistribution to control CD4 vs CD8 T cell responses

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Sachiko Hirosue, Edward Allen Phelps, Marcela Rincón-Restrepo, Sylvie Hauert

Nanoparticle delivery systems are known to enhance the immune response to soluble antigens (Ags) and are thus a promising tool for the development of new vaccines. Our laboratory has engineered two different nanoparticulate systems in which Ag is either en ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

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

Vascular endothelial growth factor-C and C-C chemokine receptor 7 in tumor cell-lymphatic cross-talk promote invasive phenotype

Melody Swartz

Most carcinomas spread to distant sites through lymphatic vessels. Several preclinical and clinical studies have shown a positive correlation between the incidence of lymph node metastasis and secretion of the lymphatic growth factor vascular endothelial g ...

American Association for Cancer Research2009

Cooperative and redundant roles of VEGFR-2 and VEGFR-3 signaling in adult lymphangiogenesis

Melody Swartz

Activation of vascular endothelial growth factor ( VEGF) receptor-3 (VEGFR-3) by VEGF-C initiates lymphangiogenesis by promoting lymphatic proliferation and migration. However, it is unclear whether VEGFR-3 signaling is required beyond these initial stages ...

Federation of American Society of Experimental Biology2007

Modeling Tumor Microenvironments In Vitro

Melody Swartz

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

Interstitial flow and its effects in soft tissues

Melody Swartz, Mark Fleury

Interstitial flow plays important roles in the morphogenesis, function, and pathogenesis of tissues. To investigate these roles and exploit them for tissue engineering or to overcome barriers to drug delivery, a comprehensive consideration of the interstit ...

2007

Dermal collagen and lipid deposition correlate with tissue swelling and hydraulic conductivity in murine primary lymphedema

Melody Swartz

Primary lymphedema is a congenital pathology of dysfunctional lymphatic drainage characterized by swelling of the limbs, thickening of the dermis, and fluid and lipid accumulation in the underlying tissue. Two mouse models of primary lymphedema, the Chy mo ...

American Society for Investigative Pathology2010

ADAM17 Silencing in Mouse Colon Carcinoma Cells: The Effect on Tumoricidal Cytokines and Angiogenesis

Melody Swartz

ADAM17 (a disintegrin and metalloprotease 17) is a major sheddase for numerous growth factors, cytokines, receptors, and cell adhesion molecules and is often overexpressed in malignant cells. It is generally accepted that ADAM17 promotes tumor development ...

Public Library of Science2012

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

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, Laura Jeanbart, Ziad Julier

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

Improving Efficacy and Safety of Agonistic Anti-CD40 Antibody Through Extracellular Matrix Affinity

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Martina Damo, Lambert Charles François Potin

CD40 is an immune costimulatory receptor expressed by antigen-presenting cells. Agonistic anti-CD40 antibodies have demonstrated considerable antitumor effects yet can also elicit serious treatment-related adverse events, such as liver toxicity, including ...

AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH2018

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

Autologous chemotaxis as a mechanism of tumor cell homing to lymphatics via interstitial flow and autocrine CCR7 signaling

Melody Swartz, Alice Anna Tomei, Mark Fleury, Carolyn Yong Pullin

CCR7 is implicated in lymph node metastasis of cancer, but its role is obscure. We report a mechanism explaining how interstitial flow caused by lymphatic drainage directs tumor cell migration by autocrine CCR7 signaling. Under static conditions, lymphatic ...

Elsevier2007

Emerging roles of lymphatic endothelium in regulating adaptive immunity

Melody Swartz

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

Primary human and rat beta cells release the intracellular autoantigens GAD65, IA-2 and proinsulin in exosomes together with cytokine-induced enhancers of immunity

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Michele De Palma, Davide Demurtas, Romain Hamelin, Sachiko Hirosue, Chiara Cianciaruso, Edward Allen Phelps, Steinunn Baekkeskov Hanahan

The target autoantigens in several organ-specific autoimmune diseases, including type 1 diabetes (T1D), are intracellular membrane proteins, whose initial encounter with the immune system is poorly understood. Here we propose a new model for how these prot ...

American Diabetes Association2017

An ultra-thin PDMS membrane as a bio/micro-nano interface: fabrication and characterization

Melody Swartz

We report a method for making ultra-thin PDMS membrane devices. Freely suspended membranes as thin as 70 nm have been fabricated. Bulging tests were performed with a custom built fluidic cell to characterize large circular membranes. The fluidic cell allow ...

Springer Verlag2007

Mechanobiology in the third dimension

Melody Swartz

Cells are mechanically coupled to their extracellular environments, which play critical roles in both communicating the state of the mechanical environment to the cell as well as in mediating cellular response to a variety of stimuli. Along with the molecu ...

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Springer2005

Matrix-binding checkpoint immunotherapies enhance antitumor efficacy and reduce adverse events

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Hans Mattias Larsson, Lambert Charles François Potin, Gabriele Galliverti

Immune checkpoint blockade exhibits considerable antitumor activity, but previous studies have reported instances of severe treatment-related adverse events. We sought to explore local immune checkpoint blockade, with an antibody (Ab) form that would be re ...

Amer Assoc Advancement Science2017