...Olga Hudlicka; Margaret D. Brown This review elucidates the roles of capillary haemodynamics, nitric oxide (NO) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in the remodelling of skeletal muscle microcirculation in response to increased (electrical stimulation) or decreased (chronic ischaemia...

... mechanism to protect the host tissue (e.g. brain or heart) from damage produced by hypoxia following ischaemia. The ATP released from the endothelial cells is rapidly broken down to adenosine which augments this protective mechanism by acting directly on P 1 -purinoceptors on vascular smooth muscle...

... the disturbances in the different layers of skin perfusion in ischaemic legs before and after treatment and compared with capillary microscopy. Eighteen patients (20 legs) with different stages of leg ischaemia scheduled for a vascular intervention (11 males, 7 females; median age 73, range: 52–81 years; Fontaine...