A graph theory analysis of renal glomerular microvascular networks

Microvascular Research

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 223-230

  Wahl, Eric M ^a   Quintas, Louis V ^a   Lurie, Lorraine L ^b   Gargano, Michael L ^b  

^a New York Inst Bioeng Hlth Sci   (United States)

^b PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Glomerulus; Graph theory; Microvasculature; Renal glomerular network; Uremia; Vascular branching patterns

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOMERULUS; KIDNEY CIRCULATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROCIRCULATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RATS; RENAL CIRCULATION; UREMIA;

GLOMERULUS;

EID: 2342628651     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2003.11.005     Document Type: Article

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