The effects of compliance on measurement of hydraulic conductivity in microvessels

Issue title: Special Double Issue for the Fifth International Congress of Biorheology. Dedicated to Hellmut Hartert. Baden-Baden, F.R. Germany, 20–24 August 1983

Guest editors: Alfred L. Copley

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Smaje, L.H. | Swayne, G.T.G.

Affiliations: Department of Physiology, Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, London W6 8RF

Abstract: A method for the measurement of compliance in mesenteric frog capillaries and rat venules is described briefly. The error introduced by capillary compliance in the measurement of hydraulic conductivity is then discussed in the light of these measurements and some of the recent literature on hydraulic conductivity are reassessed.

Keywords: Capillary, venule, compliance, hydraulic conductivity, filtration coefficient

DOI: 10.3233/BIR-1984-211-220

Journal: Biorheology, vol. 21, no. 1-2, pp. 171-179, 1984