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Modeling lymph node metastases in vivo

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Immunomodulation in draining lymph nodes can be studied in a mouse model of metastasis.

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Fig. 1: Skin tumor metastasis into draining LNs.

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  1. Department of Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Rodrigo J. Gonzalez, Changwei Peng & Ulrich H. von Andrian

  2. The Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Rodrigo J. Gonzalez, Changwei Peng & Ulrich H. von Andrian

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Gonzalez, R.J., Peng, C. & von Andrian, U.H. Modeling lymph node metastases in vivo. Nat Protoc 20, 3055–3056 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-025-01235-8

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