RBC velocities in single capillaries of mouse and rat brains are the same, despite 10-fold difference in body size

Brain Research

Volumn 1320, Issue , 2010, Pages 69-73

  Unekawa, Miyuki ^a   Tomita, Minoru ^a   Tomita, Yutaka ^a   Toriumi, Haruki ^a   Miyaki, Koichi ^a   Suzuki, Norihiro ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Frequency distribution function; Microcirculation; Mouse; RBC velocity

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAPILLARY; CELL MOTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; HEART RATE; MICROCIRCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY SIZE; CAPILLARIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ERYTHROCYTES; HEART RATE; ISOFLURANE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; RATS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 76749138902     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.01.032     Document Type: Article

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