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Change of hematocrit and blood viscosity in cholesterol-fed rabbits
K Takamizawa1, K Hayashi, T Nakamura
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hospital, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan.
Biorheology
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
In the cholesterol-fed rabbits, we observed that the whole blood viscosity was maintained at the normal level in spite of the decrease in hematocrit. This phenomenon suggests that there exists some visco-regulatory mechanism, and we could simulate it by a simple integration type model.