Why the spleen is a very rare site for metastases from epithelial cancers

AM Peters - Medical Hypotheses, 2012 - Elsevier
It is not known why metastases from epithelial cancers are rare in the spleen, yet common in
the other major organs of the reticuloendothelial system in which, like the spleen, leucocytes …

The cardiosplenic axis: another obscure pathophysiological function of the spleen and its investigation using molecular imaging

A Dunford, G Keramida… - Nuclear Medicine …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Splenic pathophysiology has been relatively unstudied, but recently, the spleen has
received more attention as a result of the discovery of the 'cardiosplenic axis'. This term …

The influence of the spleen on neutrophil apoptosis in vivo

JF White, AS Cowburn, C Summers… - Journal of Cell …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
In contrast to radiolabelled erythrocytes and platelets, radiolabelled neutrophils leave the
circulating blood in an exponential manner, indicating random rather than age-dependent …