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SUBMITTER: Chang SS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5747476 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chang Shyr-Shea SS Tu Shenyinying S Baek Kyung In KI Pietersen Andrew A Liu Yu-Hsiu YH Savage Van M VM Hwang Sheng-Ping L SL Hsiai Tzung K TK Roper Marcus M
PLoS computational biology 20171215 12
In animals, gas exchange between blood and tissues occurs in narrow vessels, whose diameter is comparable to that of a red blood cell. Red blood cells must deform to squeeze through these narrow vessels, transiently blocking or occluding the vessels they pass through. Although the dynamics of vessel occlusion have been studied extensively, it remains an open question why microvessels need to be so narrow. We study occlusive dynamics within a model microvascular network: the embryonic zebrafish t ...[more]