The number of perfused capillaries in skeletal muscle varies with muscle activation. With
increasing activation, muscle fibers are recruited as motor units consisting of widely …

One of the clearly established health outcomes associated with chronic metabolic diseases
(eg, type II diabetes mellitus) is that the ability of skeletal muscle to maintain contractile …

Large variations in blood flow are seen between resting and working conditions in skeletal
muscle. Local flow regulatory mechanisms serve for an adequate blood supply to the …

Muscle blood flow is tightly coupled to the level of skeletal muscle activity: Indices of skeletal
muscle metabolic rate, for example oxygen consumption or muscle work, are directly related …

Capillary-to-fiber geometrical relationships are important for several aspects of blood—
tissue transfer in skeletal muscles. Fiber size determines maximal diffusion distances within …

Exercise intolerance is prominent in diseases resulting in limb ischaemia. One characteristic
is microvascular rarefaction that contributes to reduced skeletal muscle performance due to …

Key points The capillary module, consisting of parallel capillaries from arteriole to venule, is
classically considered as the building block of complex capillary networks. In skeletal …

While an expanding body of experimental observations on blood flow in skeletal muscle is
accumulating (Granger et al., 1984), few efforts have been made to integrate these data into …

The circulation of blood through striated muscle has intrigued basic scien-tists and clinicians
for many centuries. To some extent, the continued attention derives from the sheer mass of …

It was the purpose of this dissertation to address the question of where in the diffusional O
$\sb2 $ transport pathway, from the tissue capillary to the mitochondrion, resides the major …