Research ArticleCANCER
Unexpected contribution of lymphatic vessels to promotion of distant metastatic tumor spread
- View ORCID ProfileQiaoli Ma1,
- Lothar C. Dieterich1,
- Kristian Ikenberg1,2,
- Samia B. Bachmann1,
- Johanna Mangana3,
- Steven T. Proulx1,
- Valerie C. Amann3,
- Mitchell P. Levesque3,
- Reinhard Dummer3,
- View ORCID ProfilePeter Baluk4,
- Donald M. McDonald4 and
- View ORCID ProfileMichael Detmar1,*
- 1Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- 2Department of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- 3Department of Dermatology, Skin Cancer Center, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- 4UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cardiovascular Research Institute and Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
- ↵*Corresponding author. Email: michael.detmar{at}pharma.ethz.ch
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Science Advances 08 Aug 2018:
Vol. 4, no. 8, eaat4758
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aat4758
Vol. 4, no. 8, eaat4758
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aat4758
Qiaoli Ma
1Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Lothar C. Dieterich
1Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Kristian Ikenberg
1Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
2Department of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Samia B. Bachmann
1Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Johanna Mangana
3Department of Dermatology, Skin Cancer Center, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Steven T. Proulx
1Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Valerie C. Amann
3Department of Dermatology, Skin Cancer Center, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Mitchell P. Levesque
3Department of Dermatology, Skin Cancer Center, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Reinhard Dummer
3Department of Dermatology, Skin Cancer Center, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Peter Baluk
4UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cardiovascular Research Institute and Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Donald M. McDonald
4UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cardiovascular Research Institute and Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Michael Detmar
1Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
