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Quantifying the impact of tissue metabolism on solute transport in feto-placental microvascular networks

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  • المؤلفون: Erlich, Alexander; Nye, Gareth A.; Brownbill, Paul; Jensen, Oliver E.; Chernyavsky, Igor L.
  • المصدر:
    Erlich , A , Nye , G A , Brownbill , P , Jensen , O E & Chernyavsky , I L 2019 , ' Quantifying the impact of tissue metabolism on solute transport in feto-placental microvascular networks ' , Interface Focus . https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2019.0021
  • نوع التسجيلة:
    article in journal/newspaper
  • اللغة:
    English
  • معلومة اضافية
    • الموضوع:
      2019
    • Collection:
      The University of Manchester: Research Explorer - Publications
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      The primary exchange units in the human placenta are terminal villi, in which fetal capillary networks are surrounded by a thin layer of villous tissue, separating fetal from maternal blood. To understand how the complex spatial structure of villi influences their function, we use an imagebased theoretical model to study the effect of tissue metabolism on the transport of solutes from maternal blood into the fetal circulation. For solute that is taken up under first-order kinetics, we show that the transition between flow-limited and diffusion-limited transport depends on two new dimensionless parameters defined in terms of key geometric quantities, with strong solute uptake promoting flow-limited transport conditions. We present a simple algebraic approximation for solute uptake rate as a function of flow conditions, metabolic rate and villous geometry. For oxygen, accounting for nonlinear kinetics using physiological parameter values, our model predicts that villous metabolism does not significantly impact oxygen transfer to fetal blood, although the partitioning of fluxes between the villous tissue and the capillary network depends strongly on the flow regime.
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.1098/rsfs.2019.0021
    • الدخول الالكتروني :
      https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/01277e34-1d4f-4028-8a24-7b1f3c120795
      https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2019.0021
    • Rights:
      info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsbas.B07FAD5