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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Angiogenesis. 2014 Mar 26;17(3):499–509. doi: 10.1007/s10456-014-9428-3

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Finite element models of bifurcating vessels in the chick CAM (after (23)). A) An example of a vessel with multiple or “serial” pillars (blood flow indicated by black arrows). B) A finite element model of the vessel without the pillars demonstrating the flow velocity streamlines. C) Wall shear stress calculations of the vessel without pillars demonstrate low shear stress in the region of the first pillar (white arrow). D) Similar flow conditions with the sequential addition of the pillars (1 through 4) suggest that pillars in series form “downstream” from the initial pillar.