The cell-free layer in microvascular blood flow

Biorheology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 181-189

  Kim, Sangho ^a   Ong, Peng Kai ^a   Yalcin, Ozlem ^b   Intaglietta, Marcos ^b   Johnson, Paul C ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood rheology; Endothelium; Glycocalyx; Microcirculatory blood flow; NO scavenging; Shear stress

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

ARTERIOLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CELL FREE SYSTEM; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; GLYCOCALYX; HEMATOCRIT; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVASCULARIZATION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN DIFFUSION; PLASMA; REVIEW; SHEAR STRESS;

CELL-FREE SYSTEM; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVESSELS;

EID: 68649096392     PISSN: 0006355X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/BIR-2009-0530     Document Type: Review

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