THE GRADIENT OF VASCULAR PERMEABILITY : II. THE CONDITIONS IN FROG AND CHICKEN MUSCLE, AND IN THE MAMMALIAN DIAPHRAGM.
A mounting gradient of permeability exists along the capillaries of frog muscle. In chicken muscle on the other hand none has been demonstrated; but the close-knit vascularization is arranged in duplicate in such manner that the blood runs in opposite directions through the capillaries of nearly adjacent fibres. In a flight muscle of the pigeon there exists in addition to this artifice what appears to be a special collecting system of venous capillaries. In the mammalian diaphragm indications of such a system are also to be found, and a gradient of capillary permeability like that in the other skeletal muscles is probably present. These vascular conditions are briefly considered in terms of function.
Laboratories of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
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