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Blood velocity as a function of vessel diameter in (a) normal pial vessels, and (b) a human glioma (U87) xenograft on the pial surface. Note that in normal microcirculation, blood velocity is dependent on vessel diameter, whereas in tumors there is no such dependence. Furthermore, the blood velocity in tumor vessels is about an order of magnitude lower than in host vessels (adapted from Ref. [14]).
