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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 25.
Published in final edited form as: J Diabetes Metab. 2013 Nov 16;4:308.

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Structural differences between artery, arteriole and capillary. No vascular smooth muscle is located on the capillary; therefore flow through capillaires is modified by pre-capillary arterioles. Cessation of flow through arterioles will prevent flow through a portion of the muscle.