arteriole

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They also reduced heart muscle growth and scaring while prompting arteriole formation and growth.

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2024

The branch that exits the glomerulus is called the efferent arteriole.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

This means, for example, that if an artery or arteriole constricts to one-half of its original radius, the resistance to flow will increase 16 times.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The white pulp surrounds a central arteriole and consists of germinal centers of dividing B cells surrounded by T cells and accessory cells, including macrophages and dendritic cells.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Such a deposition of layer upon layer of cells in an arteriole and the resulting fibrosis leads to the condition of disappearance of the lumen of the vessel, endarteritis obliterans.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall