Sentences with word «venules»

The cysteinyl - containing leukotrienes are potent bronchoconstrictors, increase vascular permeability in postcapillary venules, and stimulate mucus secretion.
As the blood starts its journey back to the heart, the capillaries develop into the larger venules.
These high endothelial venules (HEVs) are normally found in lymphoid organs such as lymph nodes, where they help transport white blood cells.
The inducible cell adhesion molecules E-selectin and VCAM - 1 are differentially expressed along the surface of the vascular endothelium and particularly enriched at the level of the postcapillary venule (17), where E-selectin mediates leukocyte and VCAM - 1, lymphocyte recruitment processes (14).
Persson thinks this cycle of inflammation is behind a range of cold symptoms including the early morning drip, although the plasma which leaks from the venules is probably not the direct source of most of that fluid.
Adjacent to the walls of our arterioles, capillaries, and venules — the blood vessels that make up our microcirculation — there exists a peculiar thin layer of clear plasma, devoid of red blood cells.
Lymphocytes constantly circulate through blood vessels within lymph nodes and other lymphoid organs, but only some actually enter lymphoid tissue by crossing the walls of the vessels, known as high endothelial venules (HEVs).
NG2 - positive cells ensheathed the isolectinB4 positive endothelium with pronounced coverage in arterioles, capillaries and venules (Supplementary Fig. 6b).
The venules develop into the larger veins.
The arteries and arterioles are part of the systemic circulatory system which carries blood away from the heart and the veins and venules are part of the pulmonary circulatory system which carries blood to the heart.
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