Author:
Kratky Ralph G.,Roach Margot R.
Abstract
Endothelial cell morphometric data were gathered from corrosion casts of the aorta and its branches of six New Zealand white rabbits weighing 2–3 kg. The endothelial cell outlines were ditigized to provide cell orientation index (COI) from the equation COI = 2Mg/2Ml−1, where 2Ms and 2Ml are the second moments of area about short and lone axes of the cell. The COI varies from zero to infinity. The former occurs when cells are symmetrical (e.g., circular) since 2Ms = 2Ml and the latter occurs for a straight line. Large values of COI were found distal to intercostals, lumbars, and the aortorenal junction, and probably reflect relatively stable high shear regions. Values close to zero occur on the flow divider where the shear stress approaches zero. Other values were less predictable and we concluded that while the long axis of the cell appears to indicate flow direction, the shape of the cell does not appear to be a reliable indicator of either tensile forces or shear stress acting in it, but probably reflects a combination of the two.
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
Physiology (medical),Pharmacology,General Medicine,Physiology
Cited by
8 articles.
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