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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Microcirculation. 2011 Apr;18(3):238–251. doi: 10.1111/j.1549-8719.2011.00084.x

Table 3.

Ratio of Coefficient of Variation* compared to age-matched C57/bl6

interbranch lengths
entry to 1st 1st to 2nd 2nd to 3rd 3rd to last
db/db:age-matched C57/bl6 0.35 0.80
ob/ob:age-matched C57/bl6 1.61 0.96 1.35 0.53
old:age-matched C57/bl6 1.12 0.44 1.59 0.58
feed diameter
1st 2nd 3rd last
db/db:age-matched C57/bl6 0.75 0.78
ob/ob:age-matched C57/bl6 1.56 1.12 0.64 1.00
old:age-matched C57/bl6 1.44 1.03 1.19 0.39
branch diameter
1st 2nd 3rd last
db/db:age-matched C57/bl6 1.27 1.34
ob/ob:age-matched C57/bl6 2.29 1.44 1.25 1.09
old:age-matched C57/bl6 1.58 0.85 2.50 0.40
flux as fraction of inflow
1st 2nd 3rd last last Feed
db/db:age-matched C57/bl6 1.27 1.24 0.53
ob/ob:age-matched C57/bl6 1.55 1.60 1.27 4.51 0.92
old:age-matched C57/bl6 0.65 1.23 1.04 1.09 1.10
flux cells/s
1st 2nd 3rd last last Feed
db/db:age-matched C57/bl6 0.55 0.69 0.57
ob/ob:age-matched C57/bl6 1.09 2.08 0.17 0.85 1.27
old:age-matched C57/bl6 2.68 1.34 3.19 1.72 1.02
*

entries are the ratio of the coefficient of variation, CV = sd/mean, for the test groups divided by the CV for the age-matched C57/bl6.