ネズミのクレマスター筋肉のマイクロ容器間の酸素伝達のイメージング

Hirosuke Kobayashi1, Naosada Takizawa

  • 1Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, and Information Science Center (N.T.), Kitasato University, Kanagawa, Japan. hiro@kitasato-u.ac.jp

Circulation
|April 10, 2002
PubMed
まとめ

この研究では,ネズミのクレマスター筋肉の微小血管における酸素飽和度 (SO2) を視覚化し,隣接し交差する動脈,静脈,毛細血管の間の酸素の移転を明らかにした.

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