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

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

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

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

Targeting and Modulating Tumor-Associated Sites with Novel Nanoparticle-Based Immunotherapies

Laura Jeanbart

Cancer is a global disease and a leading cause of death worldwide. While surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy comprise the classical tools to eradicate tumors, they do not cure cancer, cannot prevent metastases, lead to side effects, and most importantly ...

EPFL2013

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

Aptamer-Functionalized, Ultra-Small, Monodisperse Silica Nanoconjugates for Targeted Dual-Modal Imaging of Lymph Nodes with Metastatic Tumors

Li Tang

A dual-modal imaging probe based on size-controlled silica nanoconjugates was synthesized for targeted imaging of lymph nodes by means of both PET and near infrared fluorescence techniques. 20 nm nanoconjugates (see scheme) functionalized with an aptamer ( ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

Carcinogen treatment in mouse selectively expressing activated N-Ras(Q61K) in melanocytes recapitulates metastatic cutaneous melanoma development

Friedrich Beermann

The incidence of melanoma has significantly increased and a better understanding its pathogenesis and development of new therapeutic strategies are urgently needed. Here we describe a murine model of metastatic cutaneous melanoma using C57BL/6 mice express ...

2012

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

Melody Swartz, Sachiko Hirosue, Amanda Waite Lund, Susan Thomas, Amine Issa, Vidya Raghavan

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

Interstitial Fluid And Lymph Formation And Transport: Physiological Regulation And Roles In Inflammation And Cancer

Melody Swartz

Wiig H, Swartz MA. Interstitial Fluid and Lymph Formation and Transport: Physiological Regulation and Roles in Inflammation and Cancer. Physiol Rev 92: 1005-1060, 2012; doi: 10.1152/physrev.00037.2011.-The interstitium describes the fluid, proteins, solute ...

2012

Role of lymphatic vessels in tumor immunity: passive conduits or active participants?

Melody Swartz, Amanda Waite Lund

Research in lymphatic biology and cancer immunology may soon intersect as emerging evidence implicates the lymphatics in the progression of chronic inflammation and autoimmunity as well as in tumor metastasis and immune escape. Like the blood vasculature, ...

Springer Verlag2010

High-magnification vascular imaging to reject false-positive sites in situ during Hexvix® fluorescence cystoscopy

Hubert van den Bergh, Georges Wagnières, Blaise Lovisa

Fluorescence imaging for detection of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer is based on the selective production and accumulation of fluorescing porphyrins-mainly, protoporphyrin IX-in cancerous tissues after the instillation of Hexvix (R). Although the sensi ...

2010

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