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Study of Blood Capillary Permeability with the Rete Mirabile

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Some animal species are equipped with a special vascular network, called rete mirabile, that consists of counterflowing parallel arterial and venous vessels (10). The rete provides an efficient transfer system capable of trapping heat or chemical compounds for adaptive purposes. Heat conservation is vital for arctic animals or tropical animals that are hypersensitive to a rapidly cooling milieu. In some fast-swimming fish predators, capillary nets are strategically located within dark muscles, thus increasing their power by conserving the released metabolic heat.

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  1. Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA

    James B. Bassingthwaighte

  2. Biomedical Engineering Department, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 53233-1881, USA

    John H. Linehan

  3. Division of Gastroenterology Department of Medicine, McGill University School of Medicine, Montreal, Quebec, H3G, Canada

    Carl A. Goresky

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Rasio, E.A., Bendayan, M., Goresky, C.A. (1998). Study of Blood Capillary Permeability with the Rete Mirabile. In: Bassingthwaighte, J.B., Linehan, J.H., Goresky, C.A. (eds) Whole Organ Approaches to Cellular Metabolism. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2184-5_3

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