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Nature Medicine 15, 993 - 994 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nm0909-993

Blocking the path of lymphatic vessels

Mihaela Skobe1 & Reza Dana2

  1. Mihaela Skobe is in the Department of Oncological Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
  2. Reza Dana is at the Schepens Eye Research Institute and Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology, Boston Massachusetts, USA.

Correspondence to: Mihaela Skobe1 e-mail: mihaela.skobe@mssm.edu


Identification of an endogenous inhibitor of lymphatic vessel formation provides a glimpse at how lymphatic vessel growth is restrained (pages 1023–1030). The findings might be exploited to lower transplant rejection rates.

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