Developmental Aspects of the Lymphatic Vascular System

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kiefer, Friedemann (Editor), Schulte-Merker, Stefan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology, 214
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Immunology.; Cell biology.; Developmental biology.; Biomedicine.; Human Physiology.; Cell Biology.; Developmental Biology.

For decades, lymphatic vessels were considered to be of “lesser significance” than blood vessels, and the fundamental importance of lymphatic vessels for physiological tissue homeostasis and their involvement in many pathological processes have only recently been fully appreciated. It is clear by no...