Microvascular blood flow resistance: Role of endothelial surface layer

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 273, Issue 5 42-5, 1997, Pages

  Pries, Axel R ^a   Secomb, Timothy W ^b   Jacobs, Helfried ^a   Sperandio, Markus ^a   Osterloh, Kurt ^a   Gaehtgens, Peter ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Glycocalyx; Microvascular networks; Shear rate; Theology

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN LYASE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; SIALIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; GLYCOCALYX; HEMODYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MICROVASCULATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHEAR RATE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 33751298812     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1997.273.5.h2272     Document Type: Article

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