Is there a need for another model on the pulsatile nature of coronary blood flow?

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 291, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Rogers, Paul A ^a   Kiyooka, Takahiko ^a   Chilian, William M ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EDITORIAL; HEART CYCLE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ANIMALS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; MICROCIRCULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PULSATILE FLOW; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 33748416759     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00531.2006     Document Type: Editorial

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