Reticular fibers branch and anastomose in a delicate fibrous network delineating the sinusoids. They are of small diameter and are resistant to dyes, making them difficult to demonstrate except by special techniques such as the method used in this preparation. Occasionally, they are multinucleate.
Sinusoids constitute the intralobular system of specialized vascular channels.
They carry blood from interlobular branches of the portal vein centripetally to the central vein. They anastomose and separate adjacent hepatic cellular plates. It is the smallest radicle of hepatic veins and receives the contents of all the sinusoids of the hepatic lobule. Filling the central vein, they carry oxygen to the hepatic cells and remove carbon dioxide. Wilder, a twentieth-century American scientist.