This Brief Communication reports early homogenization of capillary network flow during somatosensory activation in the rat cerebral cortex. We used optical coherence tomography and statistical intensity variation analysis for tracing changes in the red blood cell flux over hundreds of capillaries nearly at the same time with 1-s resolution. We observed that while the mean capillary flux exhibit...

simultaneous capillary dominated displacement of the wetting and non-wetting phases are processes of interest in many disciplines including modeling of the penetration of polluting liquids in hydrology or the secondary migration in petroleum reservoir engineering. percolation models and in particular invasion percolation is well suited to characterize the slow immiscible displacement of two flu...

Simultaneous capillary dominated displacement of the wetting and non-wetting phases are processes of interest in many disciplines including modeling of the penetration of polluting liquids in hydrology or the secondary migration in petroleum reservoir engineering. Percolation models and in particular invasion percolation is well suited to characterize the slow immiscible displaceme...

This study analyzes the pressure in capillary tree-shaped networks, based on the thermodynamics and the geometric description of the network. The presence of equilibrium and non-equilibrium effects on pressure is accounted. In particular, the presence of equilibrium effects is shown to be essential for describing the pressure in the network. An approach to the definition of equilibrium capillar...

capillary electrophoresis (ce) with indirect uv detection is an interesting analytical method for the analysis of drugs and pharmaceuticals. good and reproducible capillary quality is needed to develop robust methods and to facilitate method transfer in ce. it is widely accepted that preconditioning procedures are indispensable in capillary electrophoresis in order to achieve reproducibility of...

A slightly deformable network may be considered as a particular porous media with a connected void phase. In this paper, a fluid flow through a collagen network is analyzed with applications in the area of restorative dentistry. Infiltration of a fluid into a network already saturated by another fluid is a complex issue especially when the fibers are so tightly distributed (10 to 100 nm between...

SEM studies on the microvascular architecture of the hard palatine mucosa, especially the transverse palatine plicae, and the morphological relations between the microvasculature and layers of the hard palate mucosa of the rabbit, were carried out by the acryl plastic injection method. The findings were compared with those obtained previously in the cat and Japanese monkey. Morphological differ...