HEVs, lymphatics and homeostatic immune cell trafficking in lymph nodes

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 762-773

  Girard, Jean Philippe ^a,b   Moussion, Christine ^a,b,c   Förster, Reinhold ^d  

^a INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE ET DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^d HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR7; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; CXCL13 CHEMOKINE; FINGOLIMOD; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR KINASE 2; GLYCOPROTEIN P 15095; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; L SELECTIN; SIALOMUCIN; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1;

B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD; CELL ADHESION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL TRANSPORT; DENDRITIC CELL; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE HOMING; LYMPHOCYTE RECIRCULATION; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; LYMPHOID CELL; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLEEN; STROMA CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL MOVEMENT; DENDRITIC CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, LYMPHATIC; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC SURVEILLANCE; LYMPH NODES; RECEPTORS, LYMPHOCYTE HOMING; RECEPTORS, LYSOSPHINGOLIPID; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VENULES;

EID: 84867900263     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri3298     Document Type: Review

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