The lymph system provides a slow flow of fluid from tissues into the blood. It returns fluid and proteins that leak from blood vessels, provides passage for immune cells from the tissues to the blood, ...

IN the 1908 Christian Herter Lectures at Bellevue Hospital, Starling 1 emphasized the important influence of changes in hepatic interstitial-fluid formation on flow and composition of thoracic-duct ...

A mouse model study has identified new cellular processes controlling development of the small valves inside lymphatic vessels, which prevent lymph fluid from flowing the wrong way back into tissues.

A new study published in the European Journal of Heart Failure reveals that the speed of lymph flow in the legs may determine how well patients respond to diuretics, a key therapy for acute heart ...

The lymphatic system has long been considered mysterious. But the lymphatic system – and the lymph nodes within it – plays fascinating and important roles in health and disease, from fighting off ...

The spread of tumour cells to sentinel, tumour-draining lymph nodes (TDLNs) has been documented for centuries. Most carcinomas first metastasize to the TDLNs, and the presence of cancer cells in TDLNs ...