Lymphatic System in Organ Development, Function, and Regeneration.
Lymphatic System in Organ Development, Function, and Regeneration.
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淋巴系统在器官发育、功能和再生中的作用。
DOI:
10.1161/circresaha.123.322867
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发表时间:
2023
影响因子:
20.1
通讯作者:
Trivedi,ChinmayM
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文献类型:
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作者:
Janardhan,HarishP;Jung,Roy;Trivedi,ChinmayM
During the Renaissance period, recognition of the heart as the central organ of the circulatory system propelled the understanding of the lymphatic system. Notably, Gaspare Aselli and Fabrice de Peiresc reported venae albae aut lacteae (white lacteals carrying milky fluid) as an independent circulatory system in dogs and humans, respectively. 1, 5 Consistent with this, Pecquet6 characterized that lacteals transport milky fluid into the cisterna chyli (the reservoir of the lymph), the abdominal origin of vena alba thoracis (the thoracic duct), and Bartolomeo Eustachi reported that vena alba thoracis ends into the venous system at the junction of the left subclavian and left internal jugular veins. 7 In the 17th century, Ruysch8 identified multiple semilunar valves within the lymphatic vessels and the direction of lymph flow in humans. Dissecting over 300 corpses injected with mercury into lymphatic vessels, Paolo Mascagni meticulously characterized the entire human lymphatic network in Vasorum lymphaticorum corporis humani historia et ichnographia, published in 1787. 9 Around the same time, William Hunter, Cruikshank10 described the lymphatic system as one great and general system that absorbs fluid all over the body, depicted in The Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body. In the 19th century, von Recklinghausen11 characterized an anastomosing network of lymphatic capillaries as a single layer of endothelial cells lacking communication with blood capillaries. Consistent with this, Starling12 identified that the balance between hydrostatic and colloid osmotic pressures across arterial and venous capillary walls regulates the filtration of circulating blood plasma, thus generating extracellular lymph. Based on morphology and muscular elements of the lymphatic vessel wall, Comparini and Bastianini13 classified lymphatic vessels into lymphatic capillaries, precollecting lymphatic vessels, and collecting lymphatic vessels. In addition to anatomic and morphological characterization, these studies identified the functional requirement of the central lymphatic system in the body’s immune defense against pathogens, the fluid homeostasis in