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Structure of lumen of body system

Known as: Lumen, lumens 
The cavity or channel within a tube or tubular organ such as a blood vessel or the intestine.
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Selective antagonism of the ET(A) receptor reduces neointimal hyperplasia after balloon-induced vascular injury in pigs.
Balloon angioplasty has become an important intervention in clinical cardiology; however, the technique is associated with a high… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Effect of glucose and galactose on microcirculatory flow in normal and neoplastic tissues in rabbits.
Red blood cell (RBC) velocity and vessel lumen diameter were measured in individual microvessels of both normal (mature… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Renal and systemic kappa light chain deposits and their plasma cell origin identified by immunoelectron microscopy.
Kappa light chain determinants were identified by immunoelectron microscopy in nodular glomerulosclerotic lesions and systemic… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Correlation of peak Doppler frequency with lumen narrowing in carotid stenosis.
The peak Doppler-shifted frequency and degree of lumen narrowing were compared in 75 cervical carotid stenoses. Peak frequency… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Degenerative vascular disease and myocardial infarction in mice with lupus-like syndrome.
The pathogenesis of the degenerative vascular disease and myocardial infarction that develop in mice with lupus-like disease was… 
1971
1971
Relationships between disaccharide hydrolysis and sugar transport in amphibian small intestine
1. A study is described of the relationships which exist between disaccharide hydrolysis and glucose transport in the small… 
1970
1970
Renal vascular resistance in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
The renal vascular beds of one spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) and one matched normotensive control rat (NCR) were perfused… 
Highly Cited
1967
Highly Cited
1967
The gradient of electrical potential difference and of sodium and potassium of the gut contents along the caecum and colon of normal and sodium‐depleted rats
1. The Na, K and water content of stools, and of gut contents removed from the terminal ileum, caecum and colon were determined… 
Highly Cited
1964
Highly Cited
1964
CALCIUM AND THE CONTRACTILITY OF ARTERIAL SMOOTH MUSCLE.
The contraction of an isolated arterial segment (500 µ o.d.) was measured as a reduction in flow through its lumen at a constant… 
Highly Cited
1951
Highly Cited
1951
Isolation of a bacterium, producing propionic acid, from the rumen of sheep.
SUMMARY: A strictly anaerobic microcoecus which produces acetic acid, propionie acid, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen by…