Scientists report on their identification of a previously undetected, but widespread, structural feature in the human body that could play a key role in how tissues and organs function, and also ...

Researchers have identified a network of fluid-filled spaces surrounded by connective tissue that fills the spaces between our organs, surrounding and potentially protecting our insides throughout the ...

Researchers have found a new organ in the human body that has been "missed for decades." The interstitium was long thought to be a flat, dense area of connective tissue around the lungs, gut, blood ...

Association studies have implicated the glycosaminoglycan hyaluronan (hyaluronic acid, HA) and its degrading enzymes the hyaluronidases in tumour progression and metastasis. Oligosaccharides of ...

Past research has shown a link between interstitial fluid flow and an increased invasion rate of glioblastoma cells, and biomedical researchers and electrical engineers recently developed a new method ...

IN the 1908 Christian Herter Lectures at Bellevue Hospital, Starling 1 emphasized the important influence of changes in hepatic interstitial-fluid formation on flow and composition of thoracic-duct ...