Microvascular thermal equilibration in rat spinotrapezius muscle

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 56-66

  Song, Ji ^a   Xu, Lisa X ^b   Lemons, Daniel E ^c   Weinbaum, Sheldon ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Countercurrent heat exchange; Effective thermal conductivity; Infrared thermography; Spinotrapezius muscle

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 0032621708     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1114/1.148     Document Type: Article

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