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Mapping the distinctive populations of lymphatic endothelial cells in different zones of human lymph nodes.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Park Saem Mul, Angel Catherine E, McIntosh Julie D, Mansell Claudia J, Mansell Claudia M, Chen Chun-Jen J, Cebon Jonathon, Dunbar P Rod
Abstract excerpt
The lymphatic sinuses in human lymph nodes (LNs) are crucial to LN function yet their structure remains poorly defined. Much of our current knowledge of lymphatic sinuses derives from rodent models, however human LNs differ substantially in their sinus structure, most notably due to the presence of trabeculae and trabecular lymphatic sinuses that rodent LNs lack. Lymphatic sinuses are bounded and traversed by...
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