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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 250: H828-H837, 1986;
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AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 250, Issue 5 828-H837, Copyright © 1986 by American Physiological Society

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Diameter and blood flow of skeletal muscle venules during local flow regulation

S. D. House and P. C. Johnson

Whole organ studies suggest that venous resistance increases as blood flow falls and decreases when blood flow increases. In experiments on skeletal muscle we tested the hypotheses that these resistance changes may be due to changes in venous diameter, changes in the number of venules with blood flow, and/or changes in the shear rate of blood in venules. The hypotheses were tested by measuring diameter and red cell velocity in cat sartorius muscle venules (7-200 microns diam) during arterial pressure reduction and muscle contraction. There was no observable change in venular diameter and an insignificant change in the number of venules with blood flow during these perturbations. There was a significant decrease in the normalized velocity (bulk velocity/vessel diameter) of blood from a mean of 13 s-1 under control conditions to 5 s-1 during arterial pressure reduction to 20 mmHg. Combining these blood velocity data with published in vivo viscosity data, it is deduced that apparent blood viscosity in venules would increase 100% when blood flow was reduced 60%. During postcontraction hyperemia the normalized velocity of blood in venules increased from 16 to 38 s-1, suggesting that apparent blood viscosity in venules would fall 54%.


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