Lymphangiogenesis articles within Nature Reviews Cardiology

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• Research Highlight | 28 January 2021

  Cardiac macrophages regulate lymphatic vessel growth during heart development

  Tissue-resident macrophages form direct interactions with lymphatic endothelial cells and regulate the growth and sprouting of lymphatic vessels during development of the mammalian cardiac vasculature.

  • Gregory B. Lim

• Review Article | 18 January 2021

  The evolving cardiac lymphatic vasculature in development, repair and regeneration

  This Review summarizes the latest knowledge on cardiac lymphatic development, structure and function, discusses the role of the cardiac lymphatics after myocardial injury during fibrotic repair and regeneration, and highlights the therapeutic potential of targeting the cardiac lymphatics in myocardial infarction.

  • Konstantinos Klaourakis
  • , Joaquim M. Vieira
  •  & Paul R. Riley