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  • Title: [Axial shift of erythrocytes in arteries supplying blood to the cerebral cortex].
    Author: Mchedlishvili GI, Kuridze NT.
    Journal: Biull Eksp Biol Med; 1990 Jul; 110(7):7-9. PubMed ID: 2224108.
    Abstract:
    In experiments with rabbits the widths of the axial flows of erythrocytes and of the parietal plasma layers were assessed in pial arterial ramifications supplying the cerebral cortex after their in vivo and in situ fixation under conditions of control and vasodilatation. A strict proportional relationship was revealed between the width of red cell flows and the diameter of pial arteries of 15-200 microns wide. However, the relative plasma volume in the microvessels below 50 microns in diameter was comparatively greater than in the larger vessels. The obtained results prove the feasibility of assessing the microvessels' diameters in tissues where one can see the red cell flow but the vascular walls are invisible. One of the reasons for the lower hematocrit in smaller blood vessels as compared to the larger ones was also elucidated.
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