Blood vessels guide immune cells to metastases

Blood vessels guide immune cells to metastases. It has long been suspected that endothelial cells, the specialized cells lining the inner walls of blood vessels, play a key role in determining how the body's immune system responds to tumors.

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Trechos de apoio da pauta: It has long been suspected that endothelial cells, the specialized cells lining the inner walls of blood vessels, play a key role in determining how the body's immune system responds to tumors. Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg and the Medical Faculty Mannheim of Heidelberg University have now identified, in mouse studies, a specialized population of blood vessel lining endothelial cells that enable an effective immune defense against cancer metastases in the liver.

• Ponto de atenção: blood.
• Ponto de atenção: vessels.
• Ponto de atenção: guide.

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