Effect of decreasing hydrodynamic resistance of a polymer on localization of sclerotic plaques. a model study
Poliakova, M.S.; Kukleĭ, M.; Senashenko, M.A.; Gannushkina, I.V.
Biofizika 44(1): 132-136
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0006-3029 PMID: 10330590 Document Number: 498642
Flow structure and wall shear stress and the changes in these parameters induced by the administration of a drag-reducing polymer polyethylene oxide WSR-301 at a concentration of 10(-5) g/ml were studied in a glass tube with a T-junction by the laser Doppler anemometry technique. The pattern of wall shear stresses is in a good agreement with the data, obtained for rabbits in [1]. For tubes with rigid walls, the location of plaques corresponds to regions of a high wall shear stress.