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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Annu Rev Fluid Mech. 2018 Jan;50:459–482. doi: 10.1146/annurev-fluid-122316-045259

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Comparison of the passive pressure/diameter relation of a lymphatic, a venule and an arteriole, all from the mesentery of the same rat. Diameter is normalised to the maximum value in each case: lymphatic 267 μm, venule 278 μm, and arteriole 135 μm. The non-linearity of elastic stiffness is related to the increase in local slope between (say) Dnorm = 0.8 and Dnorm = 1. The increase at high distending pressure is much more for the venule and lymphatic than the arteriole, and (as shown in the inset) more for the lymphatic than the venule. Redrawn from (Rahbar et al 2012).