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  • noun medicine A very small blood vessel, such as a capillary or arteriole.

Etymologies

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micro- +‎ vessel

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Examples

  • Consistent with these findings, in the high-fat fed mice, over 12 weeks, curcumin did not affect food intake but reduced body weight gain, adiposity, and microvessel density in adipose tissue.

    Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Eat Curry For Weight Loss? 2009

  • Bourdoulous S, Beraud E, Le Page C, Zamora A, Ferry A, et al. (1995) Anergy induction in encephalitogenic T cells by brain microvessel endothelial cells is inhibited by interleukin-1.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michele Mishto et al. 2010

  • Diensthuber M, Potinius M, Rodt T, Stan AC, Welkoborsky HJ, et al. (2008) Expression of bcl-2 is associated with microvessel density in olfactory neuroblastoma.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Daniela Trisciuoglio et al. 2010

  • However, thrombus-mediated microvessel occlusion, as an underlying cause for troponin elevation in septic patients has never been studied as a possible mechanism.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles David R. Altmann et al. 2010

  • The microvessel density (MVD) within the tumor was determined by immunohistochemitry for CD34.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • The samples were evaluated for two common indicators of angiogenesis: expression of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) protein and high microvessel density (MVD), or a large number of blood vessels associated with the tumor.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • The researchers found that BCL2, p53, or high microvessel density in prostate cancer biopsies is associated with increased risk for death in these patients.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • Intratumor microvessel areas were determined as described previously Female nude mice (8-10 weeks) were anasthetized by intraperitoneal injection of 120 mg / kg ketamine and 6 mg / kg xylazine on the day of injection and by exposure to 1-3\% isoflurane on subsequent imaging days.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • Our data suggest the involvement of the MSC as a component of tumor associated fibrovascular networks-this includes the pericytic population that contributes to the microvessel involved in the neovacularization as well as the fibroblastic population that contributes to matrix remodeling and tumor growth.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • Tumour size was estimated, microvessel density (MVD) counted and protein and mRNA expression measured by immunohistochemistry, western blotting and RT-PCR.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Marcel Benadiba and Aliso Juliano ANDREOLI Miyake 2009

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