Abstract
While both the spleen and lymph nodes are called secondary lymphoid tissues, how lymphocytes enter these tissues are quite different from each other. This is because the architecture of the two types of organs and the mode of lymphocyte migration into these organs are quite distinct. In the spleen, T cells are passively released in the blood flow from the arterioles in the red pulp and marginal zone area. In contrast, T cells in the blood are actively captured on high endothelial venules in lymph nodes by the coordinated actions of CCR7 and several adhesion molecules. A recent finding indicates that T cells, released in the red pulp and marginal zone areas, actively find their way to the white zone by utilizing the migration track created by periarteriolar stromal cells. This finding adds one more piece to our understanding of lymphocyte migration for effective adaptive immune responses in the spleen.
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C.H.K. is the Judy and Kenneth Betz Endowed Professor in the Mary H Weiser Food Allergy Center. He was supported in part by grants from the NIH (R01AI121302 and R21AI14889801).
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Kim, C.H., Liu, Q. Periarteriolar stroma cells guide T cells from the red to the white pulp in the spleen. Cell Mol Immunol 17, 1019–1021 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41423-020-0506-8
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