Publications by Witold Waldemar Kilarski

Adjuvant-free immunization with infective filarial larvae as lymphatic homing antigen carriers

Melody Swartz, Alexandre de Titta, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Sachiko Hirosue, Marcela Rincón-Restrepo, Esra Güç, David Scott Wilson

Controlled infection with intestinal nematodes has therapeutic potential for preventing the symptoms of allergic and autoimmune diseases. Here, we engineered larvae of the filarial nematode Litomosoides sigmodontis as a vaccine strategy to induce adaptive ...

Nature Research2020

Inherent biomechanical traits enable infective filariae to disseminate through collecting lymphatic vessels

Melody Swartz, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Marco Pisano

Filariases are diseases caused by arthropod-borne filaria nematodes. The related pathologies depend on the location of the infective larvae when their migration, the asymptomatic and least studied phase of the disease, comes to an end. To determine factors ...

Springer2019

Characterization of a B16-F10 melanoma model locally implanted into the ear pinnae of C57BL/6 mice

Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Esra Güç

The common experimental use of B16-F10 melanoma cells focuses on exploring their metastatic potential following intravenous injection into mice. In this study, B16-F10 cells are used to develop a primary tumor model by implanting them directly into the ear ...

2018

Transcellular Pathways in Lymphatic Endothelial Cells Regulate Changes in Solute Transport by Fluid Stress

Melody Swartz, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Esra Güç, Marco Pisano, Valentina Triacca

Rationale: The transport of interstitial fluid and solutes into lymphatic vessels is important for maintaining interstitial homeostasis and delivering antigens and soluble factors to the lymph node for immune surveillance. Transendothelial transport across ...

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins2017

Local induction of lymphangiogenesis with engineered fibrin-binding VEGF-C promotes wound healing by increasing immune cell trafficking and matrix remodeling

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Priscilla Suhasna Maithili Briquez, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Esra Güç, Manuel Andreas Fankhauser

Lymphangiogenesis occurs in inflammation and wound healing, yet its functional roles in these processes are not fully understood. Consequently, clinically relevant strategies for therapeutic lymphangiogenesis remain underdeveloped, particularly using growt ...

2017

Investigation of cell death mechanisms in human lymphatic endothelial cells undergoing photodynamic therapy

Witold Waldemar Kilarski

Background: Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been shown to induce ablation and functional occlusion of tumor-associated lymphatic vessels. However, direct effects of PDT on lymphatic endothelial cells (LECs) have not been studied so far. The aim of this stud ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Perivascular Macrophages Limit Permeability

Melody Swartz, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Esra Güç, Michele De Palma, Mario Leonardo Squadrito

Objective-Perivascular cells, including pericytes, macrophages, smooth muscle cells, and other specialized cell types, like podocytes, participate in various aspects of vascular function. However, aside from the well-established roles of smooth muscle cell ...

American Heart Association2016

ADAM17 Promotes Motility, Invasion, and Sprouting of Lymphatic Endothelial Cells

Melody Swartz, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Renata Katarzyna Mezyk-Kopec

Tumor-associated lymphatic vessels actively participate in tumor progression and dissemination. ADAM17, a sheddase for numerous growth factors, cytokines, receptors, and cell adhesion molecules, is believed to promote tumor development, facilitating both t ...

Public Library Science2015

Combined CSL and p53 downregulation promotes cancer-associated fibroblast activation

Melody Swartz, Cathrin Brisken, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Elena Menietti, Dania Al Labban, Csaba Ferenc László

Stromal fibroblast senescence has been linked to ageing-associated cancer risk. However, density and proliferation of cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are frequently increased. Loss or downmodulation of the Notch effector CSL (also known as RBP-Jκ) in ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Overcoming inefficient secretion of recombinant VEGF-C in baculovirus expression vector system by simple purification of the protein from cell lysate

Witold Waldemar Kilarski

The first reports about successfully expressed recombinant proteins with the use of a baculovirus vector were published over 30 years ago. Despite the long time of refining this expression system, early problems with the production of baculovirus-derived s ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2015

Engineering Interactions between Growth Factors and the Extracellular Matrix

Mikaël Martino, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Priscilla Suhasna Maithili Briquez, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Esra Güç

Federation Amer Soc Exp Biol2015

Long-term Intravital Immunofluorescence Imaging of Tissue Matrix Components with Epifluorescence and Two-photon Microscopy

Melody Swartz, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Amanda Waite Lund, Manuel Andreas Fankhauser

Besides being a physical scaffold to maintain tissue morphology, the extracellular matrix (ECM) is actively involved in regulating cell and tissue function during development and organ homeostasis. It does so by acting via biochemical, biomechanical, and b ...

Journal Of Visualized Experiments2014

Optimization and regeneration kinetics of lymphatic-specific photodynamic therapy in the mouse dermis

Melody Swartz, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Renata Katarzyna Mezyk-Kopec

Lymphatic vessels transport fluid, antigens, and immune cells to the lymph nodes to orchestrate adaptive immunity and maintain peripheral tolerance. Lymphangiogenesis has been associated with inflammation, cancer metastasis, autoimmunity, tolerance and tra ...

Springer2014

Growth Factors Engineered for Super-Affinity to the Extracellular Matrix Enhance Tissue Healing

Mikaël Martino, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Stéphanie Elisabeth Metzger, Priscilla Suhasna Maithili Briquez, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Jeffrey James Rice, Esra Güç, Federico Tortelli

Growth factors (GFs) are critical in tissue repair, but their translation to clinical use has been modest. Physiologically, GF interactions with extracellular matrix (ECM) components facilitate localized and spatially regulated signaling; therefore, we rea ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2014

Growth factors engineered for super-affinity to extracellular matrix enhance tissue healing

Mikaël Martino, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Priscilla Suhasna Maithili Briquez, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Federico Tortelli

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Intravital Immunofluorescence for Visualizing the Microcirculatory and Immune Microenvironments in the Mouse Ear Dermis

Melody Swartz, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Amanda Waite Lund, Jeremy Teo, Scott Oliver

Visualizing the dynamic behaviors of immune cells in living tissue has dramatically increased our understanding of how cells interact with their surroundings, contributing important insights into mechanisms of leukocyte trafficking, tumor cell invasion, an ...

Public Library of Science2013

VEGFR-3 Neutralization Inhibits Ovarian Lymphangiogenesis, Follicle Maturation, and Murine Pregnancy

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Jong Eun Ihm, Joseph Rutkowski, Miriella Carmela Pasquier, Didier Trono, Seung Tae Lee, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Vivianne Greenwood

Lymphatic vessels surround follicles within the ovary, but their roles in folliculogenesis and pregnancy, as well as the necessity of Lymphangiogenesis in follicle maturation and health, are undefined. We used systemic delivery of mF4-31C1, a specific anta ...

Elsevier Science Inc2013

An in vivo neovascularization assay for screening regulators of angiogenesis and assessing their effects on pre-existing vessels

Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Marcin Stefan Zielinski

Therapeutic regulation of tissue vascularization has appeared as an attractive approach to treat a number of human diseases. In vivo neovascularization assays that reflect physiological and pathological formation of neovessels are important in this effort. ...

Springer Netherlands2012

Transmural flow modulates cell and fluid transport functions of lymphatic endothelium

Melody Swartz, Joseph Rutkowski, Dimana Miteva, James Brandon Dixon, Witold Waldemar Kilarski

RATIONALE: Lymphatic transport of peripheral interstitial fluid and dendritic cells (DCs) is important for both adaptive immunity and maintenance of tolerance to self-antigens. Lymphatic drainage can change rapidly and dramatically on tissue injury or infl ...

American Heart Association2010

Blood vessel growth by matrix contraction

Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Vivianne Greenwood

2010