Horseradish peroxidase (mol. diam. approximately 50 A) and ferritin (mol. diam. approximately 110 A) were used as probe molecules for the small and large pore system, respectively, in blood capillaries of the intestinal mucosa of the mouse. Peroxidase distribution was followed in time, after intravenous injection, by applying the Graham-Karnovsky histochemical procedure to aldehyde-fixed specim...

The capillary bundle model, wherein the flow dynamics of a porous medium is predicted from that independent cylindrical tubes/capillaries whose radii are distributed according to medium's pore size distribution, has been used extensively. However, as it lacks an interaction between channels, this model fails at predicting complex configuration, including those involving two-phase flow. We propo...

Background: Neuropathy is one of the important complications of diabetes. Deficiency of the nerve conduction velocity (NCV) that occurs in both human diabetic neuropathy and animal diabetes models is one of the indicators for diabetic neuropathy. In the present study, we examined the effect of enalapril, angiotensinconverting enzyme inhibitor on NCV, number of endoneurial capillaries and th...