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SUBMITTER: Razavi MS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5974547 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Razavi Mohammad S MS Shirani Ebrahim E Kassab Ghassan S GS
Frontiers in physiology 20180523
The structure-function relation is one of the oldest hypotheses in biology and medicine; i.e., form serves function and function influences form. Here, we derive and validate form-function relations for volume, length, flow, and mean transit time in vascular trees and capillary numbers of various organs and species. We define a vessel segment as a "stem" and the vascular tree supplied by the stem as a "crown." We demonstrate form-function relations between the number of capillaries in a vascular ...[more]