Morphologic sites for regulating blood flow in the exocrine pancreas

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 37, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 434-449

  Aharinejad, S ^a   Maccdonald, I C ^b   Miksovsky, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c St Elisabeth Hospital   (Austria)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Corrosion casting; Endothelium; Exocrine pancreas; In vivo; Microscopy; Mouse; Pericytes; Scanning electron microscopy; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; CAPILLARITY; CORROSION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICROCIRCULATION;

BLOOD FLOW; CAPILLARY NETWORK; CORROSION CASTING; ENDOTHELIAL-CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM; EXOCRINE PANCREAS; IN-VIVO; MORPHO-LOGICS; MOUSE; PERICYTES;

SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CAPILLARY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS BLOOD FLOW; PERICYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEIN VALVE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030745677     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19970601)37:5/6<434::AID-JEMT7>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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