Abstract:
:Despite the fact that the concept of sheet-flow in the pulmonary microcirculation of mammals was introduced more than three decades ago, the capillary circulatory model still prevails in the physiological literature. Since cardiac output is identical in the systemic and in pulmonary circulations, it is noteworthy that in the former, the resulting arterial pressure is five times higher than that of the latter, which means that the corresponding microcirculations must be radically different. The present study addresses this problem from both morphological and physiological perspectives.
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Biol Resjournal_title
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Günther B,Morgado E,Cociña Mdoi
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2005-01-01 00:00:00pages
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:/S0716-97602011000200009
更新日期:2011-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s40659-015-0044-5
更新日期:2015-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s40659-015-0049-0
更新日期:2015-10-13 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:/S0716-97602011000400008
更新日期:2011-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1998-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s40659-015-0050-7
更新日期:2015-10-31 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:/S0716-97602009000100013
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4067/S0716-97602011000100006
更新日期:2011-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1998-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1993-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/0717-6287-47-56
更新日期:2014-10-29 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:/S0716-97602010000400008
更新日期:2010-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/0717-6287-47-9
更新日期:2014-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4067/S0716-97602013000200003
更新日期:2013-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.4067/s0716-97602006000500002
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4067/s0716-97602004000100011
更新日期:2004-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1995-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.4067/S0716-97602012000300012
更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.4067/s0716-97602004000200007
更新日期:2004-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:/S0716-97602010000300005
更新日期:2010-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4067/S0716-97602012000400004
更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章,评审
doi:10.4067/S0716-97602012000300002
更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s40659-019-0241-8
更新日期:2019-07-05 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1186/s40659-020-00309-z
更新日期:2020-09-16 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.4067/s0716-97602004000400028
更新日期:2004-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4067/S0716-97602012000200008
更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1995-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common arthritic disease and multifactorial whole-joint disease. Interactions of chemokines and OA is inadequately documented. RESULTS:In vivo and in vitro studies were conducted to investigate monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) and receptor chemokine (C-C motif) receptor 2 ...
journal_title:Biological research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s40659-015-0057-0
更新日期:2015-11-17 00:00:00