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1 Faculty of Design, Engineering and Production, Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology, Man Machine Systems and Control Group, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CD Delft; and 2 Department of Medical Physics, Cardiovascular Research Institute Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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The objectives
of this study were to evaluate the myogenic behavior of blood vessels
and their interaction within the coronary arterial tree and to evaluate
the possible role of the myogenic response in autoregulation. The model
consists of 10 compartments in series, each representing a class of
vessel sizes. Diameter and resistance in each class are determined by
their value at full dilation (dp,
Rp) and by the myogenic response.
Three distributions of Rp and three distributions
of myogenic strength, Mi (slope of
pressure-diameter curve, range 
0.05 to 0.4%/mmHg) were
evaluated (9 cases). It was found that larger vessels attenuate the
myogenic activity of smaller vessels and that myogenic responsiveness is sufficient to achieve autoregulation. When Mi
has a maximum in vessels of 84 µm, the maximum effect of
perfusion pressure on active diameter occurs in vessels between 123 and 181 µm, depending on the distribution of Rp.
Distribution of resistance and control mechanisms in the coronary
arterial tree are important for interpretation of individual vessel
responses as observed in vivo.
coronary circulation; myogenic response; autoregulation; mathematical model
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MYOGENIC CONSTRICTION of the smooth muscle cells in the arterial wall due to a rise in pressure is thought to be one of the mechanisms involved in coronary autoregulation, i.e., a relative constant flow despite changes in arterial pressure. Myogenic responsiveness in isolated resistance arteries is well documented (6, 16-20, 23, 26). However, the position of a resistance vessel in the arterial tree determines how effective the response can be. As Johnson (9, 10) argued in 1980, myogenic constriction of proximal arterioles due to arterial pressure elevation may limit the increase in pressure that is transmitted to the more distal vessels.
Studies in isolated vessels generally demonstrate heterogeneous myogenic responsiveness with the stronger myogenic reactivity in the smaller arterioles (4, 22). For example, in isolated porcine coronary arteries and arterioles with active diameters ranging from 37 to 180 µm, arterioles of ~62 µm were shown to exhibit the strongest myogenic reactivity (19). This agrees well with the observations of only a moderate responsiveness in porcine arteries of 180 µm (26) and an absence of myogenic responsiveness in porcine arteries of 223 µm (23). Therefore, on the basis of isolated vessel studies, one would expect that the smaller arterioles form the primary site for myogenic flow control.
Several studies report on the diameter changes of small arteries with diameters varying between 50 and 400 µm in the epicardial vascular bed in vivo, supporting the concept of diameter-dependent myogenic response (2, 12). However, since all these vessels are part of a network, it is not clear how the response of a single vessel under observation is determined by the other vessels in the tree.
The first aim of this study was to evaluate myogenic behavior of single coronary segments within a network and their interaction. The second aim was to evaluate the possible role of myogenic tone in autoregulation. We used a simple theoretical model with 10 resistance compartments in series. This is a strong simplification, since it has been shown that heterogeneity of branching has to be taken into account to achieve a good prediction of pressure distribution as a function of the vessel diameter (27). However, the complexities of such a heterogeneous model obscure the role of the distribution of resistance with respect to our specific aims. In our compartmental model, we evaluated three different resistance distributions, which covered the range of pressure distributions that can be found in literature, either as measured (3) or as estimated from the coronary branching structure (13, 14, 27).
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The model consists of 10 resistance compartments in series. The first
nine compartments are applied to mimic the resistance distribution of
the arterial tree. Nine compartments are used because this is
approximately the number of Strahler orders of the vessels in the
coronary arterial tree covering diameters ranging from 10 to 500 µm
(15, 27). The resistance of capillaries and venules are assumed to be
constant and are lumped in the 10th compartment. Passive and active
pressure-diameter relations of vessels with certain diameter determine
the resistance behaviors of each of the first nine compartments.
Therefore, we assume that each of these compartments, i,
represent Ni identical vessels in parallel.
Hence, according to Poiseuille, the resistance can be written as
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i is the viscosity constant;
Li is the length of the
vessel; Ni is the number of parallel vessels in the compartment; and di is the
diameter of the vessel. Since Ki includes
the length and number of vessels as well as the viscosity constant in
each compartment, it represents anatomical and rheological data. We
assume Ki in each compartment independent
of pressure and independent of diameter variations induced by myogenic
response or pressure variations directly. The Fahraeus-Lindqvist effect
is taken into account insofar as the viscosity in the reference
condition is considered. However, possible viscosity changes due to
this effect and induced by diameter changes are ignored.
Local pressure Pi is taken as the mean of the inlet
and the outlet pressure of the compartment,
Pin,i and
Pin,i+1, respectively.
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In this study, the outlet pressure of the 10th compartment is kept constant and equal to zero. Furthermore, it is assumed arbitrarily that the flow equaled 1 ml/s when the inlet pressure equals 90 mmHg at full dilation. All normalized passive pressure-diameter relations (see below) are taken to be identical for all compartments. For the resistance of the most distal compartment (R10), it is assumed that the inflow pressure Pin,10 equals 30 mmHg at a perfusion pressure of 90 mmHg at full vasodilation. Since the present model ignores the heterogeneity in topology of the coronary tree, it is not possible to estimate Ki from observed arteriolar length, density, and viscosity distributions. Therefore, a set of Ki values has been determined from a given pressure distribution in the coronary tree at full vasodilation, as explained below.
Three different pressure distributions are considered, given by the
dashed lines in Fig. 1. These three curves
in Fig. 1 result in three different resistance distributions at full
dilation as given in Fig. 2. We will
further refer to these distributions as: 1) distal dominant
resistance, 2) gradual resistance distribution, and 3)
proximal dominant resistance. As is clear from Fig. 1, our distal
dominant and proximal dominant resistance distributions form an upper
and lower bound for measured pressure distributions (1,
3), while the gradual resistance distribution forms an
intermediate case. Without an evaluation of best fit, this gradual
resistance distribution is considered the most realistic case of the
three.
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Passive Pressure-Diameter Relations
Figure 3A shows data on passive pressure-diameter relations observed by various authors on isolated coronary vessels. The anatomical diameter of these vessels at 100 mmHg varied from 65 to 260 µm. As can be seen, the normalized passive pressure-diameter data from the different studies are rather similar over this range of vessel diameters. The function as provided by Liao and Kuo (19) is used to fit through these data points
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Estimation of K and danat in the Compartments
Since it is assumed that the control of flow takes place in vessels with diameters ranging from 20 to 400 µm, we chose danat,1 = 400 µm and danat,9 = 20 µm. According to the application of Strahler ordering to topological findings, log (di) should be linear related to i (27). This determines the values of danat,i for i = 1, 2, ... , 8. Figure 1 provides the passive pressure-diameter relations for the vessels with different values of danat,i over the relevant pressure range, with Pi on the y-axis and di on the x-axis (vertical running solid curves). The values for di at Pi = 100 mmHg are indicated along the top axis of Fig. 1 and in Table 1. The intercepts of these pressure-diameter relations with the pressure distribution curves provide the actual diameter at full dilation of all compartments when the inlet pressure of the first compartment equals 90 mmHg. From these intercepts the values of Ki for a given pressure distribution can be calculated when the flow is defined. For the three resistance distributions, the three sets of Ki values are reported in Table 1.
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Active Pressure-Diameter Relations
Besides a standardized passive pressure-diameter relationship we also need a standardized active pressure-diameter relationship. This is implemented as shown in Fig. 3B. Up to a pressure of 5 mmHg the vessel is assumed to behave passively. For higher pressures the active pressure-diameter relationship is assumed to be a straight line with negative slope crossing the passive pressure-diameter relation at 5 mmHg. The magnitude of the slope represents the strength of the myogenic response. In Fig. 3B, the two extremes for myogenic strength used in this study are depicted. The active pressure-diameter relationship is calculated as follows
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Three different distributions of myogenic strength over the
compartments are studied. Two distributions are homogeneous, but with
different strengths; the weak and strong homogeneous distributions correspond to the two extremes in Fig. 3B. In the third
distribution, myogenic strength is dependent on the anatomical
diameter, with a maximum at 84 µm passive diameter. The three
different distributions are depicted in Fig.
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Simulations
The diameters of the vessels, the local pressures in the vessels, and the resistances of the compartments are calculated for perfusion pressures ranging from 5 to 140 mmHg. For the calculations, an iterative procedure is used, as illustrated in Fig. 5, which is stopped when the flows (Qi values) in all compartments are equal with an accuracy of 10
10%.
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Autoregulation Curves
Figure 6 shows the pressure-flow relations for the three resistance distributions at full dilation and 90 mmHg. The passive pressure-flow relations are nearly identical; at equal pressure, flow differs only by 0.2% maximal between the different resistance distributions. The slight curvature of the passive pressure-flow line reflects the distensibility of the vessels in the first nine compartments. When the myogenic response is distributed homogeneously, the resistance distribution is hardly affecting the autoregulation curves. However, for the diameter-dependent myogenic response, the three different resistance distributions result in quite different autoregulation curves. When resistance is proximal dominant and myogenic tone diameter dependent, the autoregulation is weak due to the fact that distal vessels having the high myogenic strength hardly contribute to the total resistance.
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Individual Diameter Responses in the Networks
Figure 7 shows the normalized diameter distribution as a function of the perfusion pressure when resistance is gradually distributed, and the different distributions in myogenic strength. Although quantitatively different, comparable results are found when resistance is dominant in the proximal compartments or in the distal compartments (results not shown). In the low perfusion pressure range, the diameters of the vessels in the different compartments increase with pressure when local pressure is smaller than 5 mmHg. At higher perfusion pressures the myogenic reduction in diameter emerges. The slope of the perfusion pressure-diameter relation at 90 mmHg is defined as the sensitivity of the myogenic response to changes in perfusion pressure. This sensitivity is provided for the nine compartments in Fig. 8, which relates to the three resistance distributions. In case of homogeneously distributed myogenic response (Fig. 7, left and middle; and Fig. 8), the strongest diameter reduction is always in the most proximal compartment. However, when myogenic reactivity is diameter dependent (Fig. 7, right; and Fig. 8), the strongest diameter reduction is in smaller vessels with the diameter of highest response dependent on the resistance distribution at full vasodilation. Maximal sensitivity of diameter to perfusion pressure is found at 123, 181, or 181 µm for the distal dominant, gradual distributed, or proximal dominant resistance distribution, respectively.
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Distributed Response of Resistance
Figure 9 provides the dependence of total resistance (top) and resistances of the compartments (bottom) on perfusion pressure for the case of gradual resistance distribution, reflecting the different distributions in myogenic strength. Despite quantitative differences, the two other resistance distributions resulted in comparable changes in resistance in the compartments as a function of perfusion pressure (results not shown). The sensitivity of resistance to perfusion pressure determined at 90 mmHg is demonstrated in Fig. 10 for all three resistance distributions.
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The myogenic activity of a compartment should result in an increase of resistance with perfusion pressure. The importance of resistance distribution becomes apparent when considering the homogeneously distributed cases. When resistance is proximal dominant (Fig. 10, right), the resistance increase occurs mainly in the proximal compartments and annihilates the myogenic rise in resistance of the more distal compartments. When resistance is gradually distributed (Fig. 9, left and middle; and Fig. 10, middle), the myogenic resistance increase becomes more distributed as well, but the effect remains dominant in the proximal compartments. When resistance is distal dominant (Fig. 10, left), the strongest myogenic rise in resistance occurs at intermediate diameters notwithstanding the homogeneous distribution of myogenic strength.
For diameter-dependent myogenic strength (peak strength at 84 µm), maximal sensitivity of active resistance to perfusion pressure is found at 84, 123, or 268 µm for the distal dominant, gradual distributed, or proximal dominant resistance distribution, respectively (Fig. 9, right; Fig. 10).
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Our results demonstrate that myogenic activity of the large resistance vessels in the arterial tree attenuates the myogenic stimulus of the small vessels during changes in perfusion pressure. The more proximal the resistance, the stronger this effect. Hence, in flow control, the distribution of resistance is important for the role of myogenic behavior of individual vessels within the coronary network. This is most clearly demonstrated in the model with diameter-dependent myogenic tone. Peak myogenic tone was assumed here to occur in vessel segments with a passive diameter of 84 µm. However, in the network, peak myogenic diameter alterations to a change in perfusion pressure shifted to vessels with passive diameters in the range of 123 to 181 µm.
The model with homogeneously distributed resistance in combination with a diameter-dependent myogenic response seems to be the most realistic of the cases studied. It describes best the experimental data on pressure distribution in the dilated coronary bed (3) and diameter dependence of myogenic response of isolated vessels (19). However, coronary vascular trees show heterogeneous branching, and therefore resistance distributions along various paths may well be quite different, sometimes more closely resembling either the proximal dominant case or the distal dominant case. Hence, the different resistance distributions chosen provide insight into the importance of heterogeneity of the coronary tree in relation to physiological measurements. Obviously, the more local the measurement, e.g., diameter of individual in vivo vessels vs. pressure-flow lines in arteries, the more important heterogeneity will be.
Limitations of the Model
The model consists of nine compartments, which corresponds to the number of Strahler orders established for porcine coronary subtrees starting with a vessel of 400-500 µm in diameter (13, 27). A model consisting of a series of resistances can be rationalized as the equivalent of a symmetrical dichotomous branching tree. In that case, resistance of each compartment corresponds to the equivalent value of all vessels with a certain diameter and length in parallel. However, when applying the Strahler order vs. vessel diameter relation and the vessel diameter vs. length relation as reported by VanBavel and Spaan (27), the pressure distribution follows the top dashed curve of Fig. 1 (resistance dominant in the distal compartments). This curve deviates from experimental data on pressure-diameter relations in vivo, as is demonstrated in Fig. 1 as well. It has been shown that the artificial steep pressure drop at the smallest vessel diameter disappears when heterogeneity in branching characteristics is taken into account (27). To arrive at more realistic pressure distributions for our serial model, we changed the value of Ki for each compartment, which can be interpreted either as modifying the length (Li) or changing the number of parallel vessels (Ni). Also, changing the viscosity (i) in the compartment can modify
Ki. Note that we did not alter the passive
and active local pressure-diameter relations of the vessels
representative for the compartments.
Two rheological effects are not accounted for in our model but may have an impact since viscosity may change with diameter change. As has been described by Pries et al. (24), apparent viscosity may decrease with increasing diameter for diameters lower than 40 µm, whereas for larger diameters, viscosity will increase. The latter effect is known as the Fahraeus-Lindqvist effect, whereas the former effect in apparent viscosity may relate to an endothelial surface layer (25, 29). However, for both rheological phenomena, it holds that their influence depends on the relative diameter variation of the vessels and the sensitivity of the apparent viscosity to these diameter changes. We calculated the variations in apparent viscosity based on diameter variation induced by a change in Pin,1 from 140 to 10 mmHg predicted with constant Ki. The maximal effect occurs in the case of the distal dominant resistance distribution and strong homogeneous myogenic strength. In this case, most of the diameter variation is limited to the first compartment, and apparent viscosity does change by 20%. For the gradual resistance distribution and diameter-dependent myogenic response, the maximal viscosity change is 8.5% and occurs in the 4th compartment. These changes are all due to the Fahraeus-Lindqvist effect. The other effect hardly plays a role, because vessels in the relevant compartments do not change much in diameter.
Especially at low pressures, there may be differences in the normalized passive pressure-diameter relationships between vessels of various caliber. However, for the sake of simplicity, these relations were taken independent of the size of the vessel. We also assumed myogenic characteristics of each compartment to be represented by a linear myogenic pressure-diameter relation above 5 mmHg. The current simplifications do not, however, influence the basic conclusions of our study, since myogenic strengths applied to the model cover the experimentally observed pressure-diameter relations found in isolated vessel studies, as is shown in Fig. 3B. In the case of diameter-dependent myogenic tone, the peak strength was taken for vessels with 84 µm in passive diameter at local pressure of 100 mmHg, which is in agreement with Liao and Kuo (19).
Our model does not contain an element describing metabolic vasodilation. Hence, the predictions by the model should be considered to be at a constant metabolic rate. Furthermore, possible other control mechanisms, including flow-dependent dilation, were purposely not taken into account to study the effect of myogenic response per se. Obviously, these modifications should be taken into account in a more comprehensive model. Griffith et al. (8) reported that the inhibition of endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) changes the resistance distribution in the microvascular network of a rabbit ear. Therefore, in vivo an interaction between flow-dependent dilation and the myogenic mechanism exists. Since the flow-dependent mechanism is generally assumed to be active in the larger vessels, the effect of myogenic constriction of these vessels on attenuation of local pressure changes in the smaller vessels may have been overestimated in the present study.
Previous Model Studies
Liao and Kuo (19) used a model approach similar to ours to investigate the potentiating effect of shear-dependent dilation by adenosine. That study used four compartments in series. Each compartment exhibited myogenic responsiveness as well. Granger (7) used a series-coupled model with three compartments to investigate the interaction of myogenic control, metabolic control, and flow-dependent dilation in the arterial tree. However, neither study gave special attention to the interaction between myogenic strength and resistance distribution over the compartments.Model Predictions and Experimental Observations
Autoregulation curves. The pressure-flow lines show quite good autoregulation and support the notion that the myogenic response contributes to this phenomenon (5). To compare the slopes of our predicted autoregulation curves with in vivo observations, we may apply the correlation between flow (Q) on the one hand and pressure (Pin,1) and oxygen consumption (M
O2) on the other hand, as
provided by Vergroesen et al. (28)
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O2; c is the rest
term. These authors calculated the relative sensitivity, a*,
which equals the ratio of the slopes of the autoregulation curve
(a) and of the pressure-flow curve at maximal dilation. They
reported values for a* between 0.041 and 0.202. Our simulations
are at constant MO2, and
therefore a* can be directly calculated from the slopes of the
autoregulation curve and the fully dilated pressure-flow curve. These
slopes, determined by linear regression between 60 and 120 mmHg, are
shown in Table 2. Table 2 indicates
that the pressure-flow lines with distal dominant and gradual
resistance distribution and with the strong and
diameter-dependent myogenic strength are within the range of the
experimental found pressure-flow lines. When resistance is proximal and
myogenic strength is diameter dependent, predicted
autoregulation is too strong, whereas in the other combinations
autoregulation is too weak. It should again be stressed that in
in vivo studies, other control mechanisms are active as well, and
therefore comparing quantitative results should be done with care.
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Our model demonstrates flow reserve at pressures lower than actually found in experimental studies, where the dilated and the active pressure-flow lines start to diverge beyond 35 mmHg (21). However, coronary isolated vessel studies demonstrate myogenic tone at low pressures. This discrepancy could be due to either metabolic vasodilation at low perfusion pressure in the whole heart, vessel selection for isolated vessel studies, or alterations in vessel properties due to isolation or cannulation.
The current study demonstrates the difficulty of drawing conclusions with respect to myogenic tone and resistance distribution from coronary arterial pressure-flow lines. For example, for both the strong and the weak myogenic response, the pressure-flow line is independent of the resistance distribution (Fig. 6), notwithstanding quite large differences in the distribution of resistance responses over the compartments (Figs. 9 and 10).
When myogenic strength is assumed to be diameter dependent, autoregulation is poorer when resistance is proximal dominant. This, however, is obvious, since in this case most of the resistance is located in the proximal vessels with lower tone. When resistance is distal dominant or when resistance is gradually distributed, the model predictions differ only marginally. This is caused by the coincidence of strong myogenic tone with the location of the highest resistance.
Distribution of resistance and diameter variation induced by
maximal vasodilation or changing perfusion pressure. In case myogenic tone is different in the various compartments, the maximal dilatory response to adenosine is expected to be different as well.
Chilian and Layne (2) infused adenosine intracoronarily [Kanatsuka et al. (11) infused adenosine intravenously,
and their data are not considered here] and demonstrated that
smaller arterioles dilated more than proximal ones. The results are
replotted in Fig. 11A: vessels
ranging in diameter from 40 to 150 µm dilated on average 20%, and
vessels between 150 and 300 µm dilated on average 10%, when
perfusion pressure was kept at 96 mmHg. The percentage dilation
predicted with the three resistance distributions and
diameter-dependent myogenic strength, assuming that adenosine caused
full dilation, is also shown in Fig. 11A. The dilation measured by Chilian and Layne (2) is smaller than we predict in
our model, also for the most realistic case of gradual distributed resistance with diameter-dependent myogenic tone. This difference may
be due to too high a level of vasoconstriction assumed in our model.
However, this would then imply that the local spontaneous tone of the
isolated vessels (6, 16-20, 26) is stronger than the tone in vivo
under the working conditions of the experiments of Chilian and Layne
(2). This may be possible since heart rate was high in
the experiments of Chilian and Layne (2), ~188
beats/min, which should have resulted in lower coronary resistance at
this baseline. This is also reflected in their coronary flow reserve at
coronary pressure of 90 mmHg, which was a factor of 3 in the
experiments and was a factor of 4 for our prediction applying the
gradual resistance distribution.
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Chilian and Layne (2) and Kanatsuka et al. (12) have induced pressure steps by an occluder around a major coronary artery. Pressure reductions at steady state varied from ~90 mmHg to pressures in the range of 90 to 30 mmHg. The major outcome was that smaller vessels dilated more than larger ones, except for a pressure step down to 30 mmHg, in which case the small vessels (<150 µm) did not dilate at all. We have compiled relative diameter changes of the different vessels as induced by pressure reduction from 90 to 40 mmHg from the two studies in Fig. 11B (2, 12). In Fig. 11, we also plotted our model predictions for five cases. Only the cases with diameter-dependent myogenic tone predict the dominant dilation in the smaller vessels (down to 50 µm). In contrast, the simulated homogeneously distributed weak and strong myogenic responses predict a continuous decreasing vessel diameter. The simulations with diameter-dependent myogenic tone further predict that the dilation becomes less in vessels with very small diameters, but experimental data in this range are absent. For the large vessels Kanatsuka et al. (12) found on average constriction of about 10%, in contrast to Chilian et al. (2), who found on average no variation in diameter. This constriction can be explained by a weaker myogenic response than assumed here or by involvement of flow-dependent dilation.
In conclusion, this study shows that interaction between different vessels in the coronary arterial tree influences the effectiveness of myogenic flow control. Myogenic activity of larger vessels attenuates the myogenic activity of smaller vessels. The location for myogenic control depends not only on the myogenic strength of the vessels in isolation but also on the resistance distribution. For a given flow demand, the distributed myogenic response is consistent with both experimentally found diameter changes and the course of the pressure-flow line. Hence, the myogenic response is sufficient to explain autoregulation, notwithstanding the fact that other control mechanisms have their own role in flow control. Therefore, the myogenic response obscures the in vivo study of other mechanisms mediating autoregulation by its potential for flow control. This study emphasizes the importance of knowledge of the distribution of resistance and control mechanisms when studying vessels in the coronary tree.
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This work is supported by Netherlands Heart Foundation Grant 95020 (to J. Dankelman).
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The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. The article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. §1734 solely to indicate this fact.
Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: J. A. E. Spaan, Dept. of Medical Physics, Cardiovascular Research Institute Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, Univ. of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands (E-mail: j.a.spaan{at}amc.uva.nl).
Received 2 August 1999; accepted in final form 17 November 1999.
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), gradual (
), and proximal dominant (
) resistance
distribution. Data from Chilian et al. (
) or in control conditions (
). Interpolation of data measured by
Chilian (
) and subepicardium (
)
arterioles of an isolated porcine heart.
). Data
were normalized to the passive diameter at 100 mmHg.
