Volume 30, No 3, Mar 2020

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 30 Issue 3, March 2020: 191-192

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Meningeal lymphatics “drain” brain tumors

Mitsuhiro Kanamori ^1,2 and Jonathan Kipnis ^1,2

¹ Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA and ²Department of Neuroscience, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA22908, USA
Correspondence: Mitsuhiro Kanamori (mk8wh@virginia.edu) or Jonathan Kipnis (kipnis@virginia.edu)

Lymphatic vessels in the brain meninges connect the brain to the periphery, and are implicated in controlling immune responses in the brain. Hu et al. demonstrate that the brain’s rejection of glioma can be facilitated by expansion of the meningeal lymphatic vessels; similar findings were recently reported independently by Song et al.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-020-0286-9

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