The purpose of this educational exercise is to describe some of the salient features of the physiology of the mesenteric circulation, focusing particularly on the regulation of its blood flow. The reader is referred to several recent reviews of the subject that are more extensively referenced with original sources (5, 6, 10, 11). Although the terms “mesenteric circulation” and “splanchnic circu...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of different eating times on blood circulation index, pulse wave energy (E), and radial augmentation index (RAI) of healthy adult men. METHODS Blood circulation index, E, and RAI were measured using a three-dimensional (3-D) pulse imaging system (3-D MAC) at before, right after, 30 minutes after, 1 hour after, and 2 hours after ea...

Oxygen is an essential part of the living organism. It is transported from blood to the body tissue by the systematic circulation and large part of it is stored in the blood flowing in capillaries. In this work we discuss a mathematical model for oxygen transport in tissues. The governing equations are established assuming that the blood is flowing along a co-axial cylindrical capillary inside ...