Lymphatic endothelial progenitors originate from plastic myeloid cells activated by toll-like receptor-4

• Lisa D. Volk-Draper ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa D. Volk-Draper, Kelly L. Hall

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Cell Biology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, United States of America

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• Kelly L. Hall ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa D. Volk-Draper, Kelly L. Hall

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Cell Biology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, United States of America

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• Andrew C. Wilber,

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Cell Biology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, United States of America, Simmons Cancer Institute, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, United States of America

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• Sophia Ran

  * E-mail: sran@siumed.edu

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Cell Biology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, United States of America, Simmons Cancer Institute, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3958-6099

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