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Physical Stability of the Microcirculation

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Since 1951, BURTON and his colleagues have discussed physical equilibrium of vascular walls by utilizing the Law of Laplace and proposed the concept of critical closing pressure (1–4). These results have been quoted in several standard textbooks of physiology. The purpose of the present paper is to discuss critically the validity of applying the Laplacian equation to thick walled blood vessels on the basis of our general equation (5).

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  1. Department of Physiology, Shinshu University Medical School, Matsumoto, Japan

    T. Azuma

  2. Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan

    S. Oka

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  1. Städtisches Krankenhaus, Kaiserslautern, West Germany

    Hellmut H. Hartert (Medical Director Professor of Medicine) (Medical Director Professor of Medicine)

  2. Medical Faculty, Saar University, Homburg/Saarbrücken, West Germany

    Hellmut H. Hartert (Medical Director Professor of Medicine) (Medical Director Professor of Medicine)

  3. Hemorrhage and Thrombosis Research Laboratories, USA

    Alfred L. Copley (Chief Research Director Adjunct Research Professor of Bioengineering) (Chief Research Director Adjunct Research Professor of Bioengineering)

  4. Department of Pharmacology, New York Medical College, New York, NY, 10029, USA

    Alfred L. Copley (Chief Research Director Adjunct Research Professor of Bioengineering) (Chief Research Director Adjunct Research Professor of Bioengineering)

  5. Newark College of Engineering, Newark, NY, 07102, USA

    Alfred L. Copley (Chief Research Director Adjunct Research Professor of Bioengineering) (Chief Research Director Adjunct Research Professor of Bioengineering)

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Azuma, T., Oka, S. (1971). Physical Stability of the Microcirculation. In: Hartert, H.H., Copley, A.L. (eds) Theoretical and Clinical Hemorheology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65156-4_6

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