Anatomy and nomenclature of murine lymph nodes: Descriptive study and nomenclatory standardization in BALB/cAnNCrl mice

W Van den Broeck, A Derore, P Simoens - Journal of immunological …, 2006 - Elsevier
Murine lymph nodes are intensively studied but often assigned incorrectly in scientific
papers. In BALB/cAnNCrl mice, we characterized a total of 22 different lymph nodes.
Peripheral nodes were situated in the head and neck region (mandibular, accessory
mandibular, superficial parotid, cranial deep cervical nodes), and at the forelimb (proper
axillary, accessory axillary nodes) and hindlimb (subiliac, sciatic, popliteal nodes).
Intrathoracic lymph nodes included the cranial mediastinal, tracheobronchal and caudal …