New Lymphology Combined with Lymphatic Physiology, Innate Immunology, and Oncology

In more than 85 year-old history of the Gordon Research Conference, a conference on the scheme of lymphatic systemwas held for the first time on March 2004, in Ventura, California, USA. Such trends of lymphatic Gordon conference are considered to reflect rapid progress of lymphology inspired by the discovery of new markers of lymphatic endothelial cells such as LYVE-1, podoplanin, and Prox1, and then the development of the VEGF C/D and VEGF R3-mediated lymphangiogenesis and lymphatic metastasis of carcinoma cells.