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  • Title: Early capillary flux homogenization in response to neural activation.
    Author: Lee J, Wu W, Boas DA.
    Journal: J Cereb Blood Flow Metab; 2016 Feb; 36(2):375-80. PubMed ID: 26661145.
    Abstract:
    This Brief Communication reports early homogenization of capillary network flow during somatosensory activation in the rat cerebral cortex. We used optical coherence tomography and statistical intensity variation analysis for tracing changes in the red blood cell flux over hundreds of capillaries nearly at the same time with 1-s resolution. We observed that while the mean capillary flux exhibited a typical increase during activation, the standard deviation of the capillary flux exhibited an early decrease that happened before the mean flux increase. This network-level data is consistent with the theoretical hypothesis that capillary flow homogenizes during activation to improve oxygen delivery.
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