Population
Hamster cremaster and gracilis muscles, and hamster cheek pouch arterioles
Design
Preclinical
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Hypothesis-generating in rodent models; leaves open whether gap junctions mediate human arteriolar conduction.
Propagated vasodilation in hamster arterioles appears to be mediated by direct cell-cell conduction via gap junctions rather than neural or myogenic pathways.
Segal et al. (1987) studied this question.
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