A Simple "Streak Length Method" for Quantifying and Characterizing Red Blood Cell Velocity Profiles and Blood Flow in Rat Skeletal Muscle Arterioles

Microcirculation

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 327-335

  Al Khazraji, Baraa K ^a   Novielli, Nicole M ^a   Goldman, Daniel ^a   Medeiros, Philip J ^a   Jackson, Dwayne N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hemodynamics; Intravital video microscopy; Microvascular blood flow; Red blood cell velocity profiles; Skeletal muscle arterioles

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; ERYTHROCYTE; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; STREAK LENGTH METHOD; VELOCITY;

ANIMALS; ARTERIOLES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ERYTHROCYTES; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

RATTUS;

EID: 84860227953     PISSN: 10739688     EISSN: 15498719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-8719.2012.00165.x     Document Type: Article

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