Constructed wetlands positioned in the landscape between row crop agriculture and surface waters can be used to intercept tile drainage and serve as agricultural waste water detention basins.
Agricultural drainage ditches serve as the first and second order streams throughout much of this region, as well as other highly productive agricultural areas in humid regions throughout the world.
This fluid drainage can serve to increase metastasis both by passively carrying tumour cells and by establishing autocrine chemotactic gradients by autologously secreted heparin binding growth factors such as VEGF-A or CCL21.
If operated appropriately, drainage systems may serve as vast reservoirs to retain or release water and solutes.
In addition, there is an age-related failure of elimination of Aβ along the perivascular drainage pathways [ 7] that serve as lymphatic drainage pathways for interstitial fluid and solutes (including Aβ) from the brain [ 4, 5, 17].
Some remain dry, while most of them fill up with liquid water after a certain period or might serve as drainage volume for effective water transport.
They are thought to serve as drainage reservoirs for the excessive joint effusion in the setting of any arthropathy, escaping from its regular location through a one-way-valve mechanism into the area of least resistance [1, 2, 4].
The results of this study provide information on drainage morphometry that can serve as a database of initial assessment for strategic planning, management and decision making that include watershed prioritization for soil and water conservation, assessment of surface and groundwater potential, soil erosion studies, flash flood hazard assessment, etc.
Appropriately designed such large-scale open urban drainage systems could both serve as places of recreational experience and as a significant temporary rainwater storage capacity during extreme rain events.
As compared to arteries, it is less clear whether venous perivascular pathways serve as a drainage pathway for ISF and interstitial solutes.
