Effects of skeletal muscle sarcomere length on in vivo capillary distensibility

Microvascular Research

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 144-152

  Kindig, Casey A ^a   Poole, David C ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary diameter; Intravital microscopy; Sarcomere length; Spinotrapezius muscle

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIUM; CAPILLARY WALL; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SARCOMERE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032812180     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mvre.1998.2123     Document Type: Article

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