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ArticleJournal of advanced research2020

Dietary lipids accumulate in macrophages and stromal cells and change the microarchitecture of mesenteric lymph nodes.

Katharina Streich, Margarethe Smoczek, Jan Hegermann, Oliver Dittrich-Breiholz, Melanie Bornemann, Anja Siebert, Andre Bleich, Manuela Buettner

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Article in Journal of advanced research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Katharina StreichInstitute of Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Margarethe SmoczekInstitute of Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Jan HegermannResearch Core Unit Electron Microscopy, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Oliver Dittrich-BreiholzResearch Core Unit Genomics, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Melanie BornemannInstitute for Functional and Applied Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Anja SiebertInstitute of Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Andre BleichInstitute of Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Manuela BuettnerInstitute of Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In obesity, increased dietary lipids are taken up and transported by the lymphatic systems into the circulatory system. Increased fat accumulation results in impairments in the lymph fluid and lymph node (LN) atrophy. LNs filter the lymph fluid for foreign antigens to induce and control immune responses, and the alteration of this function during obesity remains underexplored. Here, the changes within the microarchitecture of mesenteric LNs (mLNs) during high levels of lipid transport were investigated, and the role of stromal cells in mice fed a high-fat diet for 10 weeks was assessed. Microarray experiments revealed that gene probes involved in lipid metabolism are expressed by mLN stromal cells. Transmission electron microscopy enabled the identification of lipid droplets in lymphatic endothelial cells, different reticulum cells, and macrophages, and the lipid droplet sizes as well as their numbers and intercellular distances increased after 10 weeks of high-fat diet feeding. The results indicate that changes in the microarchitecture and increased accumulation of lipid droplets in stromal cells and macrophages influence the immunological function of mLNs.

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Lipid dropletsLymphatic systemMicroarrayObesity

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PMID32405435
PMCPMC7210474
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