Hematocrit dispersion in asymmetrically bifurcating vascular networks

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 307, Issue 11, 2014, Pages H1576-H1586

  Sriram, Krishna ^a   Intaglietta, Marcos ^b   Tartakovsky, Daniel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Hematocrit; Murray s law; Red blood cell distribution; Vascular network

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE PRESSURE; MICROCIRCULATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SHEAR STRESS; VASCULAR NETWORK; VASCULARIZATION; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; BLOOD VESSEL; PHYSIOLOGY;

OXYGEN;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSELS; BLOOD VISCOSITY; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; MICROCIRCULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXYGEN;

EID: 84913582160     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00283.2014     Document Type: Article

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