This encouraged the body's natural healing process by increasing local blood flow to areas with poor blood supply. (arcintegratedmedicine.com)
The goal of this study is to unravel the molecular mechanisms underlying the dive response, specifically, to study a signaling pathway that coordinates local blood flow. (usap-dc.org)
This contributes to the growing literature that suggests that capillaries are not simply passive tubes through which blood cells flow to irrigate tissue, but rather they may actively contribute to the control of local blood flow directly. (sciencedaily.com)