Ebook: Microcirculation: Blood-Vessel Interactions Systems in Special Tissues 1
- Tags: Tree Biology
- Year: 1976
- Publisher: Springer US
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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The recogmuon recogmtIon of the microcirculation as an ideal interdisciplinary meeting place for the life sciences is really a postwar phenomenon. The European and the American Societies more than any other organizations launched the idea, and the success of the European Society's International Meetings gave impetus to a growth of interest from a handful of specialists to the wide interdisciplinary study which microcirculation now represents. The meeting held in Canada in June 1975 was, however, the first truly international meeting devoted to the microcirculation. It, too, was a success from every point of view, and the exchange of knowledge and new ideas was rewarding. It is our present hope that the tradition of European meetings with their characteristic European flavor will continue, but larded by larger, international congresses conceived on a worldwide basis. For the present conference we were fortunate in the presence of Dr. B. Zweifach. He was once referred to as the "father of the microcircula tion." This claim, unfortunately, I cannot accept. That honor probably belongs to Harvey, who by one of the most brilliant strokes of inductive reasoning in medical history inferred the existence of capillaries though he could not see them. Ben Zweifach's role was rather that of the midwife, presiding at the birth rather than the conception. The baby he delivered long years ago has since thriven lustily and its growth is in no small measure due to the continuing zeal of Zweifach and his associates.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Blood Rheology Interpreted through the Flow Properties of the Red Cell....Pages 9-76
Methods for the Investigation of the Microcirculation....Pages 77-97
Red Cell Interactions with the Microcirculation....Pages 99-147
Blood Vessel Structure....Pages 149-162
Microcirculatory Flow Patterns....Pages 163-177
Formed Elements of the Blood Platelets, and Thrombosis....Pages 179-235
Lymphatics....Pages 237-252
Neurohumoral Control of Blood Vessels....Pages 253-272
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
Pulmonary Circulation....Pages 275-284
Myocardial Blood Flow....Pages 285-323
The Splanchnic Circulation....Pages 325-360
Blood Flow in Skeletal Muscle....Pages 361-382
Microcirculation in Other Tissues....Pages 383-408
Back Matter....Pages 409-420
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Blood Rheology Interpreted through the Flow Properties of the Red Cell....Pages 9-76
Methods for the Investigation of the Microcirculation....Pages 77-97
Red Cell Interactions with the Microcirculation....Pages 99-147
Blood Vessel Structure....Pages 149-162
Microcirculatory Flow Patterns....Pages 163-177
Formed Elements of the Blood Platelets, and Thrombosis....Pages 179-235
Lymphatics....Pages 237-252
Neurohumoral Control of Blood Vessels....Pages 253-272
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
Pulmonary Circulation....Pages 275-284
Myocardial Blood Flow....Pages 285-323
The Splanchnic Circulation....Pages 325-360
Blood Flow in Skeletal Muscle....Pages 361-382
Microcirculation in Other Tissues....Pages 383-408
Back Matter....Pages 409-420
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