Ultrastructure of a Mobile Threadlike Tissue Floating in a Lymph Vessel

Figure 1

Stereomicroscopic images of lymph ducts in which a PVS was stained with Alcian blue. (a) Illustration of the locations of the lymph nodes and ducts along the epigastric blood vessels (thick arrow) in skin. (b) The blue stained primo vessel (PV) in the lymph duct along the blood vessel (BV) is indicated with arrows. The lymph vessel is hardly visible in a stereomicroscopic image.

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