TONE AND REACTIVITY OF VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE IN GERMFREE RAT MESENTERY
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- 1 October 1971
- journal article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Vol. 134 (4), 846-856
- https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.134.4.846
Abstract
Microcirculatory observations and measurements were made by in vivo microscopy in 35 germfree and 26 conventional rats. The rate of vasomotor activity, "vasomotion," of precapillary arterioles was found markedly decreased in the germfree animals.Keywords
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