Publications by Amanda Waite Lund

Targeting LRG1 boosts immunotherapy

Vascular normalization therapy has the potential to facilitate drug delivery and lymphocyte infiltration in tumors. Yet, optimal targets and dosage regimens remain elusive. In this issue of Med, O’Connor et al. show that inhibition of LRG1 stabilizes the t ...

2021

Tumor lymphangiogenesis promotes T cell infiltration and potentiates immunotherapy in melanoma

Melody Swartz, Olivier Michielin, Lambert Charles François Potin, Marcela Rincón-Restrepo, Amanda Waite Lund, Laura Jeanbart, Douglas Hanahan, Sylvie Hauert, Krisztian Homicsko, Natacha Anne-Sophie Bordry, Christopher Claude Giuseppe Tremblay, Manuel Andreas Fankhauser, Maria Anna Sofia Broggi, Elodie Da Costa

In melanoma, vascular endothelial growth factor-C (VEGF-C) expression and consequent lymphangiogenesis correlate with metastasis and poor prognosis. VEGF-C also promotes tumor immunosuppression, suggesting that lymphangiogenesis inhibitors may be clinicall ...

Amer Assoc Advancement Science2017

Lymphatic vessels regulate immune microenvironments in human and murine melanoma

Melody Swartz, Amanda Waite Lund, Manuel Andreas Fankhauser, Maria Anna Sofia Broggi

Lymphatic remodeling in tumor microenvironments correlates with progression and metastasis, and local lymphatic vessels play complex and poorly understood roles in tumor immunity. Tumor lymphangiogenesis is associated with increased immune suppression, yet ...

Amer Soc Clinical Investigation Inc2016

Dermal lymphatic vessels are required for the induction of local inflammation in a B16 F10 murine melanoma

Melody Swartz, Amanda Waite Lund, Manuel Andreas Fankhauser

Amer Assoc Cancer Research2015

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

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

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

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

Steady-State Antigen Scavenging, Cross-Presentation, and CD8(+) T Cell Priming: A New Role for Lymphatic Endothelial Cells

Melody Swartz, Patricia Corthésy Henrioud, Sachiko Hirosue, Marcela Rincón-Restrepo, Amanda Waite Lund, Efthymia Vokali, Vidya Raghavan

Until recently, the known roles of lymphatic endothelial cells (LECs) in immune modulation were limited to directing immune cell trafficking and passively transporting peripheral Ags to lymph nodes. Recent studies demonstrated that LECs can directly suppre ...

American Association of Immunologists ; Oxford University Press2014

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

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

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

Lymphatic and interstitial flow in the tumour microenvironment: linking mechanobiology with immunity

Melody Swartz, Amanda Waite Lund

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