Krogh length
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The
Krogh Length
,
, is the distance between
capillaries
at which nutrients
diffuse
to based on cellular consumption of the nutrients.
[1]
[2]
It can be described as:
where
is the diffusion constant of the solute in the substrate,
is the concentration in the channel, and
is the consumption by the cells. Units are in terms of
length
.
[
citation needed
]
See also
References
- ↑ Fournier, R. L. Basic Transport Phenomena in Biomedical Engineering 1st edn (Taylor & Francis, London, 1999).
- ↑ Choi et al. Microfluidic scaffolds for tissue engineering. Nature Materials (2007) vol. 6 pp. 908-915
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