Understanding the Lymphatic System: Tissue-on-Chip Modeling

WJ Polacheck, JB Dixon, WY Aw - Annual review of Biomedical …, 2025 - annualreviews.org
The lymphatic vasculature plays critical roles in maintaining fluid homeostasis, transporting
lipid, and facilitating immune surveillance. A growing body of work has identified lymphatic …

Fluid‐Dynamic Modeling of Flow in Embryonic Tissue Indicates That Lymphatic Valve Location Is Not Consistently Determined by the Local Fluid Shear or Its Gradient

CD Bertram, C Macaskill - Microcirculation, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Intravascular lymphatic valves often occur in proximity to vessel junctions. It is
commonly held that disturbed flow at junctions is responsible for accumulation of valve …