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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: During metastasis, malignant cells escape the primary tumor, intravasate lymphatic
vessels, and reach draining sentinel lymph nodes before they colonize distant
organs via the blood circulation. Although lymph node metastasis in cancer patients
correlates with poor prognosis, evidence is lacking as to whether and how tumor
cells enter the bloodstream via lymph nodes. To investigate this question, we
delivered carcinoma cells into the lymph nodes of mice by microinfusing the cells
into afferent lymphatic vessels. We found that tumor cells rapidly infiltrated
the lymph node parenchyma, invaded blood vessels, and seeded lung metastases without
involvement of the thoracic duct. These results suggest that the lymph node blood
vessels can serve as an exit route for systemic dissemination of cancer cells
in experimental mouse models. Whether this form of tumor cell spreading occurs
in cancer patients remains to be determined.
acknowledged_ssus:
- _id: Bio
acknowledgement: "M.B. was supported by the Cell Communication in Health and Disease
graduate study program of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the Medical University
of Vienna. M.S. was supported by the European Research Council (grant ERC GA 281556)
and an FWF START award.\r\nWe thank C. Moussion for establishing the intralymphatic
injection at IST Austria and for providing anti-PNAd hybridoma supernatant, R. Förster
and A. Braun for sharing the intralymphatic injection technology, K. Vaahtomeri
for the lentiviral constructs, M. Hons for establishing in vivo multiphoton imaging,
the Sixt lab for intellectual input, M. Schunn for help with the design of the in
vivo experiments, F. Langer for technical assistance with the in vivo experiments,
the bioimaging facility of IST Austria for support, and R. Efferl for providing
the CT26 cell line."
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article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Markus
full_name: Brown, Markus
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last_name: Brown
- first_name: Frank P
full_name: Assen, Frank P
id: 3A8E7F24-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Assen
orcid: 0000-0003-3470-6119
- first_name: Alexander F
full_name: Leithner, Alexander F
id: 3B1B77E4-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Leithner
orcid: 0000-0002-1073-744X
- first_name: Jun
full_name: Abe, Jun
last_name: Abe
- first_name: Helga
full_name: Schachner, Helga
last_name: Schachner
- first_name: Gabriele
full_name: Asfour, Gabriele
last_name: Asfour
- first_name: Zsuzsanna
full_name: Bagó Horváth, Zsuzsanna
last_name: Bagó Horváth
- first_name: Jens
full_name: Stein, Jens
last_name: Stein
- first_name: Pavel
full_name: Uhrin, Pavel
last_name: Uhrin
- first_name: Michael K
full_name: Sixt, Michael K
id: 41E9FBEA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Sixt
orcid: 0000-0002-6620-9179
- first_name: Dontscho
full_name: Kerjaschki, Dontscho
last_name: Kerjaschki
citation:
ama: Brown M, Assen FP, Leithner AF, et al. Lymph node blood vessels provide exit
routes for metastatic tumor cell dissemination in mice. Science. 2018;359(6382):1408-1411.
doi:10.1126/science.aal3662
apa: Brown, M., Assen, F. P., Leithner, A. F., Abe, J., Schachner, H., Asfour, G.,
… Kerjaschki, D. (2018). Lymph node blood vessels provide exit routes for metastatic
tumor cell dissemination in mice. Science. American Association for the
Advancement of Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal3662
chicago: Brown, Markus, Frank P Assen, Alexander F Leithner, Jun Abe, Helga Schachner,
Gabriele Asfour, Zsuzsanna Bagó Horváth, et al. “Lymph Node Blood Vessels Provide
Exit Routes for Metastatic Tumor Cell Dissemination in Mice.” Science.
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal3662.
ieee: M. Brown et al., “Lymph node blood vessels provide exit routes for
metastatic tumor cell dissemination in mice,” Science, vol. 359, no. 6382.
American Association for the Advancement of Science, pp. 1408–1411, 2018.
ista: Brown M, Assen FP, Leithner AF, Abe J, Schachner H, Asfour G, Bagó Horváth
Z, Stein J, Uhrin P, Sixt MK, Kerjaschki D. 2018. Lymph node blood vessels provide
exit routes for metastatic tumor cell dissemination in mice. Science. 359(6382),
1408–1411.
mla: Brown, Markus, et al. “Lymph Node Blood Vessels Provide Exit Routes for Metastatic
Tumor Cell Dissemination in Mice.” Science, vol. 359, no. 6382, American
Association for the Advancement of Science, 2018, pp. 1408–11, doi:10.1126/science.aal3662.
short: M. Brown, F.P. Assen, A.F. Leithner, J. Abe, H. Schachner, G. Asfour, Z.
Bagó Horváth, J. Stein, P. Uhrin, M.K. Sixt, D. Kerjaschki, Science 359 (2018)
1408–1411.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:46:16Z
date_published: 2018-03-23T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2024-03-28T23:30:09Z
day: '23'
department:
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doi: 10.1126/science.aal3662
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publication: Science
publication_status: published
publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
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title: Lymph node blood vessels provide exit routes for metastatic tumor cell dissemination
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