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Anatomy and pathology of lymphatic vessels under physiological and inflammatory conditions in the mouse diaphragm

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MICROVASCULAR RESEARCH
卷 145, 期 -, 页码 -

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ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2022.104438

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Lymphatic vessels; Lymphatic subtypes; Diaphragm; Chronic inflammatory pleuritis

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  1. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [18K08133, 22H02964]
  2. AMED [17dk0110024, 20dk0310101h0002]

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Lymphatic vessels in the parietal pleura drain fluids, but impaired drainage function can lead to fluid accumulation. Inflammation can alter the structure of lymphatics and blood vessels, affecting drainage function. Inhibiting vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR) under inflammation can maintain vascular structures and lymphatic endothelial junctions.
The lymphatic vessels in the parietal pleura drain fluids. Impaired drainage function and excessive fluid entry in the pleural cavity accumulate effusion. The rat diaphragmatic lymphatics drain fluids from the pleura to the muscle layer. Lymphatic subtypes are characterized by the major distribution of discontinuous button-like endothelial junctions (buttons) in initial lymphatics and continuous zipper-like junctions (zippers) in the col-lecting lymphatics. Inflammation replaced buttons with zippers in tracheal lymphatics. In the mouse diaphragm, the structural relationship between the lymphatics and blood vessels, the presence of lymphatics in the muscle layer, and the distributions of initial and collecting lymphatics are unclear. Moreover, the endothelial junctional alterations and effects of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR) inhibition under pleural inflam-mation are unclear. We subjected the whole-mount mouse diaphragms to immunohistochemistry. The lym-phatics and blood vessels were distributed in different layers of the pleural membrane. Major lymphatic subtypes were initial lymphatics in the pleura and collecting lymphatics in the muscle layer. Chronic pleural inflammation disorganized the stratified layers of the lymphatics and blood vessels and replaced buttons with zippers in the pleural lymphatics, which impaired drainage function. VEGFR inhibition under inflammation maintained the vascular structures and drainage function. In addition, VEGFR inhibition maintained the lymphatic endothelial junctions and reduced the blood vessel permeability under inflammation. These findings may provide new targets for managing pleural effusions caused by inflammation, such as pleuritis and empyema, which are common pneumonia comorbidities.

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