Abstract
The lacteal is a blunt-ended lymphatic capillary located at the center of a villus in the small intestine that plays multifaceted roles under both physiologic and pathologic conditions. However, studies of its biology are limited by the lack of a feasible method to visualize all the relevant components for its regulation. Here, we describe an efficient whole-mount protocol to visualize the intact structure of lacteals and surrounding cells in villi of the small intestine of adult mouse.
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Suh, S.H., Hong, S.P., Park, I., Song, JH., Koh, G.Y. (2018). Morphological Analysis of Lacteal Structure in the Small Intestine of Adult Mice. In: Oliver, G., Kahn, M. (eds) Lymphangiogenesis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1846. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8712-2_8
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