- A
precapillary sphincter is a band of
contractile mural cells either classified as
smooth muscle or
pericytes that
adjusts blood flow into capillaries...
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Precapillary resistance is the
modulation of
blood flow by
capillaries through vasomotion,
either opening (dilating) and
letting blood p**** through, or...
- [citation needed] some
microscopically small, in
particular the
millions of
precapillary sphincters.
Sphincters relax at death,
often releasing fluids and faeces...
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individual smooth muscle cells placed a
short distance apart, each
forming a
precapillary sphincter that
encircles the
entrance to that
capillary bed. Constriction...
- in
women than in men. It
causes more
dilation in the
arterioles and
precapillary vessels than the
postcapillary vessels and venules. The
increased dilation...
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Resistance arteries are
usually small arteries or
arterioles and
include precapillary sphincters.
Having thick muscular walls and
narrow lumen they contribute...
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through modulation of
nitric oxide pathways but also via
intracranial precapillary vasoconstriction. The
indometacin property of
reducing cerebral blood...
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subpapillary plexus shunting also occurs.
Persistent vasoconstriction at the
precapillary sphincter creates a
local hypoxic environment, thus
releasing adenosine...
- 2021.
Retrieved 14 July 2021. Sakai, T; Hosoyamada, Y (2013). "Are the
precapillary sphincters and
metarterioles universal components of the microcirculation...
- capillarity, capillary, capilliform, capillose, dishevel, dishevelment,
precapillary capsa caps- box, case caisson, cajón, capsi****, capsular, capsule, case...