Reliability of lightguide spectrophotometry (O2C®) for the investigation of Skin tissue microvascular blood flow and tissue oxygen supply in diabetic and nondiabetic subjects

Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1151-1156

  Forst, Thomas ^a   Hohberg, Cloth ^a   Tarakci, Eda ^a   Forst, Senait ^a   Kanna, Peter ^b   Pfützner, Andreas ^a  

^a Institute for Clinical Research and Development   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus type 2; Endothelial function; Laser Doppler flux; Skin microcirculation; Tissue oxygenation

Indexed keywords

EID: 74249091722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19322968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/193229680800200625     Document Type: Article

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