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IN circulatory physiology, there may be difficulty in expressing quantitatively the response of a vascular bed in which blood flow has altered. If change of flow is used to express the response, then a large change in arterial pressure may be overlooked. For this reason it has been customary to express responses as changes of resistance, vascular resistance being the pressure difference across the vascular bed divided by the flow through it.
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Greenway, C. V., Lawson, A. E., and Stark, R. D., J. Physiol. (in the press)
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STARK, R. Conductance or Resistance?. Nature 217, 779 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217779a0
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