Vascular geometry and oxygen diffusion in the vicinity of artery-vein pairs in the kidney

American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology

Volumn 307, Issue 10, 2014, Pages F1111-F1122

  Ngo, Jennifer P ^a   Kar, Saptarshi ^b   Kett, Michelle M ^a   Gardiner, Bruce S ^b   Pearson, James T ^a   Smith, David W ^b   Ludbrook, John ^c   Bertram, John F ^a   Evans, Roger G ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arterial to venous oxygen shunting; Arteries; Blood vessels; Countercurrent diffusion; Hypoxia; Oxygen transport to tissue

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; SILASTIC;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTERY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; KIDNEY; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY PERFUSION; KIDNEY VEIN; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN DIFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THERMODYNAMICS; VASCULAR GEOMETRY; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN; VENULE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; DIFFUSION; KIDNEY CIRCULATION; KIDNEY CORTEX; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; DIFFUSION; KIDNEY CORTEX; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXYGEN; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RENAL CIRCULATION;

EID: 84925155884     PISSN: 1931857X     EISSN: 15221466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00382.2014     Document Type: Article

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