Scientists investigating the causes of lymphoedema have made a major discovery, revealing that lymphatic vessels can produce red and white blood cells. Until now, it was believed that blood cells ...

The cells that make up the walls of the finest of all lymphatic vessels have a lobate, oak leaf-like shape that makes them particularly resilient to changes in fluid volume. A similar cell shape also ...

Lymphatic system plays a key role in waste clearance, fluid transport and immune surveillance in health and disease. In the brain, A network of lymphatic vessels was discovered on the surface the ...

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Finnish researchers find breast cancer reshapes lymphatic vessels to aid its spread, uncovering new targets that could help ...

Scientists at the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine suggest that lymphatic vessels that clean the brain of harmful material may play a crucial role in the development and progression of ...

The brain's lymphatic vessels appear to carry previously unknown messages from the brain to the immune system that ultimately cause the disease symptoms. Blocking those messages may offer doctors a ...

Breast cancer is able to modify the lymphatic vessels through which it travels to the draining lymph nodes. From there, it can then spread to other parts of the body. A new finding by Finnish ...

The growth of lymphatic vessels, lymphangiogenesis, has received considerable attention in the last years, due to the identification of proteins specifically expressed on lymphatic vessels and the ...

Researchers from Kumamoto University (Japan) have clarified the mechanism by which blood and lymph vessels remain segregated from one another after development. The characteristics and structures of ...

Researchers identified a protein called VE-cadherin as a key factor in the maintenance of lymphatic vessels serving the heart. Deleting VE-cadherin from the lymphatic vessels in newborn and adult lab ...

Tissues from 88 excised primary and 34 recurrent pterygia were evaluated, and tissues from 7 nasal epibulbar conjunctivae segments were used as controls. The lymph-vascular area (LVA), ...