The microvasculature of python pit organs: Morphology and blood flow microkinetics

Microvascular Research

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 179-185

  Goris, Richard C ^a   Atobe, Yoshitoshi ^a   Nakano, Masato ^a   Hisajima, Tatsuya ^a   Funakoshi, Kengo ^a   Kadota, Tetsuo ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Crotaline; Infrared; Pericyte, Capillary; Pit organ; Pit viper; Python; Snake; Actin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CAPILLARY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART BEAT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFRARED RADIATION; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MICROVASCULATURE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERICYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BOIDAE; CROTALINAE; HENOPHIDIA; PYTHON REGIUS; SERPENTES;

EID: 0037403761     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0026-2862(03)00003-7     Document Type: Article

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