title: [New conceptions of structural organization of the active lymph drainage].
abstract: The review examines the history and the current state of the problem of structural bases of active lymph drainage from organs in human and mammalian animals. Two conceptions of lymphangion structure are compared that represent it as either valvular or intervalvular segments of lymphatic vessel functioning as active lymph drainage organizers.
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Petrenko
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004729:Endothelium, Lymphatic / Q000166:cytology; D006801:Humans; D008196:Lymph / Q000166:cytology; D008208:Lymphatic System / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000166:cytology; D042601:Lymphatic Vessels / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000166:cytology*