arteriole

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arteriole

[är′tir·ē‚ōl]

(anatomy)

An artery of small diameter that terminates in capillaries.

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The arterioles regulate the amount of blood that enters these capillary networks.

This leads to most examiners applying an almost binary approach to grading AVR by stating 2:3 in most cases, whereas in cases of vessels of the same size as 1:1 and retinal arterioles classed as generalised narrow, referred to as 1:2.

Retinal vessel evaluation

Yet these tiny arterioles and venules deliver oxygen and nutrients to energy-hungry brain cells and carry away wastes.

3-D map of blood vessels in brain constructed

Angiotensin II directly increases glomerular filtration pressure by causing constriction of the efferent arterioles.

Kidney care and renal disease

Drugs, such as the immunosuppressants cyclosporine and tacrolimus, chemo-therapeutic drugs bleomycin and cisplatin, clopidogrel, oestrogen-containing oral contraceptives and quinine may cause thrombosis in the afferent renal arteriole and glomerulus.

Drug-induced renal injury: the kidney plays an important role in the elimination of many drugs and their metabolites

Using the x40 objective lens of the compound light microscope allows only a single layer of the three-dimensional arteriole to be focused at a time (Fig.

A method for assessing removal of foreign particles from the blood by fixed phagocytes of the American lobster, Homarus americanus

direct tissue arteriole diameter measurements to assess vasoactivity

Oxygen Biotherapeutics and U.S. Navy Expand Collaboration with Cooperative Research & Development Agreement to Study Oxycyte[R] for Treatment of Hemorrhagic Shock

4] causes inflammation resulting in arteriole occlusion and hypertension," said Joanne Quan, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Eiger.

Eiger BioPharmaceuticals Announces Acquisition of Exclusive License to Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) Program from Stanford University

The process of hyalinosis invariably also affects the glomerular arteriole in moderately advanced diabetic nephropathy.

Renal morphologic lesions reminiscent of diabetic nephropathy

Also, if such glands are found in close proximity to a thick-walled, medium or small arteriole, it most likely represents an invasive adenocarcinoma.

Chronic pancreatitis and the differential diagnosis versus pancreatic cancer

A salmon patch haemorrhage is observed in sickle cell disease and appears as an oval-shaped area of intra-retinal or pre-retinal blood, believed to occur secondary to an obstructed retinal arteriole, which subsequently ruptures.

Management & investigation of vascular conditions: module 13 Part 6: clinical optometry course code: c-13921 o/d

Retinal arteriosclerosis: chronic hypertension leads to fibrosis in the arteriole walls of retinal vessels