Decreased heterogeneity of capillary plasma flow in the rat whisker- barrel cortex during functional hyperemia

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1300-1306

  Vogel, Johannes ^a   Kuschinsky, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Functional activation; Microcirculation; Microvascular flow; Mystacial vibrissae; Somatosensory cortex; Vibrissa

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN PERFUSION; CAPILLARY FLOW; HYPEREMIA; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0029908654     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004647-199611000-00026     Document Type: Article

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