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Blood vessels

Blood vessels

Any of the tubular vessels conveying the blood (arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venules, and veins).


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Dilation or Constriction

... Some might constrict like digestive and some might dilate like muscle vessels. But the work of kidney is not only filtering blood. It's other function is to regulate blood pressure. So I think it would dilate because ...

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by behzad
Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:29 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Dilation or Constriction
Replies: 3
Views: 736

PostSynaptic Neuron

... regulates involuntary muscle action, breathing movements, diameter of blood vessels, heart rate... Hypothalamus and pituitary gland united the nervous system with the ...

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by Asanii
Fri Jul 24, 2009 2:28 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: PostSynaptic Neuron
Replies: 3
Views: 121

Re: Neurofibromatosis type 1

I am no expert but perhaps blood vessels play a great deal with NEUROFIBROMATOSIS , ALSO Chemical synapses WHICH PLAYS A SPECIAL ROLE IN MUSCLES ...

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by CXCR4
Sat Jul 11, 2009 9:06 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Neurofibromatosis type 1
Replies: 1
Views: 137

blood brain barrier

... tissue, but are there actual immune cells in our brain, outside the blood vessels? Which materials can actually freely pass the blood-brain barrier? Does it only depend ...

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by kk
Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:39 pm
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: blood brain barrier
Replies: 2
Views: 715

Blood Pressure in Males and Females

The blood pressure is typically measured at systole and diastole, so in that sense it doesn't ... a sum of many factors and has much to do with certain hormones, age, the state of blood vessels and ionic balance of the body among other things. I have understood it so that men ...

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by biohazard
Wed Mar 04, 2009 6:57 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Blood Pressure in Males and Females
Replies: 1
Views: 834
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