Table 1.

Intramural and interstitial flow rates and vessel diameters measured in healthy tissue using animal models, and in tumors using both animal and human models.

	Healthy tissue	Tumor
Intramural flow	Arterioles: 29 diameter 15–60μm: 7–12 mm/s Capillaries: 29 diameter 5μm: 0.2 mm/s Venules: 29 diameter 18–72μm: 0.2–2.4 mm/s Microlymphatic vessels: 38 diameter 100 μm: 1–7 mm/s Lymphatic capillaries: 39, 155 diameter 55 μm: 0–29 μm/s	Blood vessels in mammary carcinoma: 156 diameter 7–63μm: 0–0.8 mm/s Blood vessels in glioma: diameter 8–55μm: 0–0.5 mm/s 156 diameter 1–100μm: 0.001–10 mm/s 157 Blood vessels in adenocarcinoma: 158 arterioles 9–10μm: 0.59–0.7 mm/s capillaries 6–8μm: 0.09–0.27 mm/s venules 10–26μm: 0.09–0.22 mm/s
Interstitial flow	Rabbit ear tissue: 50 0.59±0.16 μm/s	VX2 carcinoma: 0.55 ± 0.16 μm/s 50 C6-pTET-VEGF tumor: 0.1–0.5 μm/s 159 Cervical carcinoma: 1–7 μm/s 55 Melanoma: 1–9 μm/s Nonmetastatic squamous carcinoma: 5–25 μm/s Metastatic squamous carcinoma: 10–55 μm/s