Frequency distribution function of red blood cell velocities in single capillaries of the rat cerebral cortex using intravital laser-scanning confocal microscopy with highspeed camera

Asian Biomedicine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 203-218

  Unekawa, Miyuki ^a   Tomita, Minoru ^a   Osada, Takashi ^a   Tomita, Yutaka ^a   Toriumi, Haruki ^a   Tatarishvili, Jemal ^a   Suzuki, Norihiro ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

High speed camera; Intraparenchymal single capillary; KEIO IS2; Laser scanning confocal fluorescencemicroscopy; RBC velocity; Thoroughfare channel

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE DEXTRAN; URETHAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN CORTEX; CAMERA; CAPILLARY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SIZE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; RAT; VELOCITY;

EID: 70349329850     PISSN: 19057415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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