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SUBMITTER: Polomska AK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6478437 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Polomska Anna K AK Proulx Steven T ST Brambilla Davide D Fehr Daniel D Bonmarin Mathias M Brändli Simon S Meboldt Mirko M Steuer Christian C Vasileva Tsvetina T Reinke Nils N Leroux Jean-Christophe JC Detmar Michael M
JCI insight 20190221 4
Current clinical methods for the evaluation of lymphatic vessel function, crucial for early diagnosis and evaluation of treatment response of several pathological conditions, in particular of postsurgical lymphedema, are based on complex and mainly qualitative imaging techniques. To address this unmet medical need, we established a simple strategy for the painless and quantitative assessment of cutaneous lymphatic function. We prepared a lymphatic-specific tracer formulation, consisting of the c ...[more]