Capillary Blood Flow Abnormalities in the Skeletal Muscle and Microvascular Complications in Diabetes. Lessons That Cannot Be Learned From Larger Vessels

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 53, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 2184-2185

  Porter, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

contrast ultrasound; diabetes mellitus; microbubbles; microvascular dysfunction; muscle perfusion

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VISCOSITY; BLOOD VOLUME; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIABETIC MICROANGIOPATHY; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MUSCLE CAPILLARY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAPILLARIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; EXERCISE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MICROVESSELS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERFUSION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 66149098552     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2009.03.015     Document Type: Editorial

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