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Peter Baluk, Li-Chin Yao, Jennifer Feng, Talia Romano, Sonia S. Jung, Jessica L. Schreiter, Li Yan, David J. Shealy, Donald M. McDonald
Published in Volume 119, Issue 10
J Clin Invest. 2009; 119(10):2954–2964 doi:10.1172/JCI37626
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Figure 1
Time course of airway vessel changes after infection.

(A) Low-magnification view of highly ordered blood vessels (green) and lymphatics (red) in a flat whole mount of pathogen-free C57BL/6 mouse trachea. Most blood vessels and lymphatics are arranged in arcades in mucosa between cartilage rings. Capillaries of relatively uniform caliber (arrows) cross cartilage, but lymphatics do not. (B) Widened capillaries (arrows) over cartilages 7 days after M. pulmonis infection. (C) At 14 days, blood vessels are larger and lymphatic sprouts (arrows) are more abundant. Boxed regions enlarged in DF. (D) In pathogen-free mouse, LYVE-1 lymphatic sprouts are absent but some leukocytes (arrows) express LYVE-1. See also Supplemental Figure 1. (E) Vessel changes are accompanied by an influx of leukocytes, many stained for PECAM-1 (short arrows). Lymphatic sprouts are indicated by arrows. (F) Abundant lymphatic sprouts (arrows) and enlarged blood vessels. (G) Time course of changes in blood vessel diameter. *P < 0.05 versus pathogen-free. Data are represented as means ± SEM. (H) Triple-stained for PECAM-1, phosphohistone H3 (PH3), a marker of dividing nuclei, and LYVE-1 at 7 days. PH3-labeled endothelial nuclei (arrows) and nonendothelial cells (short arrows). (I) Cross-section of 14-day infected trachea. Many dividing nuclei (red) are present in epithelium and in other mucosal cells (short arrows). Although several labeled nuclei appear to coincide with lymphatics or blood vessels, most are actually superimposed and few (arrows) are truly located in vessels (arrows) as determined by examination of individual confocal sections. Scale bars: 200 μm (AC, H, and I); 50 μm (DF).