why does lymph contain much less proteins than the blood plasma?
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The hydrostatic pressure inside the blood capillaries is greater than that in the tissues, pushing fluid out. The fluid that filtered out from endothelial cells of blood capillaries into the interstices among the cells is a little of watery part of the blood plasma, with almost all the substances except large proteins. During filtration process of watery substance, a very small fraction of plasma proteins escape from the blood capillaries in the tissues. So because of this filtration, lymph contains less proteins than the blood plasma (which are usually smaller in size).
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