Blood flow patterns in the rat pancreas: A simulative demonstration by injection replication and scanning electron microscopy

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 37, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 497-508

  Murakami, Takuro ^a   Miyake, Tsuyoshi ^a   Tsubouchi, Mari ^a   Tsubouchi, Yutaka ^a   Ohtsuka, Aiji ^a   Fujita, Tsuneo ^b  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corrosion casting; Microcirculation; Microvascular architecture; Pancreas; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; CAPILLARITY; DUCTS; FLOW PATTERNS; RATS; RESINS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BLOOD CAPILLARY; BLOOD FLOW PATTERNS; CORROSION CASTING; FLOWTHROUGH; MICROVASCULAR; MICROVASCULAR ARCHITECTURE; PANCREAS; PHYSIOLOGICAL FLOW; RESIN FLOWS; SECRETORY DUCTS;

MICROCIRCULATION;

METHACRYLIC ACID; RESIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; INJECTION; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ACINUS; PANCREAS BLOOD FLOW; PANCREAS ISLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIMULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030745678     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19970601)37:5/6<497::AID-JEMT12>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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