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  28 February 2024 | Open Access

  Compartmentalized ocular lymphatic system mediates eye–brain immunity

  A study provides evidence for a shared lymphatic circuit that connects the posterior eye and the brain, allowing the generation of immune responses to protect the CNS against pathogens and tumours following intravitreal immunization.

  • Xiangyun Yin
  • , Sophia Zhang
  •  & Eric Song

• Letter | 01 June 2015

  Structural and functional features of central nervous system lymphatic vessels

  The central nervous system undergoes constant immune surveillance, but the route that immune cells take to exit the brain has been unclear as it had been thought to lack a classical lymphatic drainage system; here functional lymphatic vessels able to carry both fluid and immune cells from the cerebrospinal fluid are shown to be located in the brain meninges.

  • Antoine Louveau
  • , Igor Smirnov
  •  & Jonathan Kipnis

• Research Highlights | 11 April 2012

  Follow the lymph vessels

• Research Highlights | 22 September 2010

  Immunology: Vessels block inflammation