Altered B-Cell Expansion and Maturation in Draining Mesenteric Lymph Nodes of Inflamed Gut in Crohn's Disease

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Visceral Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ² Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
• ³ Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
• ⁴ Clinical Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ⁵ Clinical Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ⁶ Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ⁷ Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ⁸ Division of Visceral Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Electronic address: lukas.unger@meduniwien.ac.at.