Alterations in Marginal Zone Macrophages and Marginal Zone B Cells in Old Mice

Alterations in Marginal Zone Macrophages

Capture by Marginal Zone Macrophages Marginal Zone B Cells Regulate Antigen

Localization of Marginal Zone Macrophages

Cannabinoid receptor 2 positions and retains marginal zone B cells within the splenic marginal zone

Specialized B cells residing in the splenic marginal zone (MZ) continuously survey the blood for antigens and are important for immunity to systemic infections. However, the cues that uniquely attract cells to the MZ have not been defined. Previous work demonstrated that mice deficient in cannabinoid receptor 2 (CB2) have decreased numbers of MZ B cells but it has been unclear whether CB2 regul...

Marginal Zone B-cell lymphoma

Extra-nodal MZBCL of MALT type (7% of all NHL) is an indolent disease involving most often the stomach, where it usually follows chronic gastritis due to Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection. The disease may also localize in the lung, the thyroid, the salivary gland, the orbit. Splenic MZBCL (1% of all NHL on histologic samples) usually, though not invariably, presents splenomegaly associated cir...