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Percentage of capillaries supporting red blood cell (RBC) flow at rest, end-contraction and end-recovery. Note that most capillaries contain moving RBCs at rest, during muscle contractions and after 3 min of recovery. Thus, ‘capillary recruitment’ does not appear to be an important mechanism by which the muscle pump increases skeletal muscle blood flow during contractions.
