Pre-collecting lymphatic vessels form detours following obstruction of lymphatic flow and function as collecting lymphatic vessels

• Kimi Asano ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kimi Asano, Yukari Nakajima

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Nursing, Graduate Course of Nursing Science, Division of Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, School of Nursing, Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada, Japan

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• Yukari Nakajima ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kimi Asano, Yukari Nakajima

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6401-8678

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• Kanae Mukai,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

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• Tamae Urai,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Nursing, Toyama Prefectural University, Toyama, Japan

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• Mayumi Okuwa,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

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• Junko Sugama,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Advanced Health Care Science Research Unit, Innovative Integrated Bio-Research Core, Institute for Frontier Science Initiative, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

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• Chizuko Konya,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Nursing, Ishikawa Prefectural Nursing University, Kahoku, Japan

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• Toshio Nakatani

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nakatosi@staff.kanazawa-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

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