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Krogh length

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The Krogh Length, , is the distance to which nutrients diffuse between capillaries, 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

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References

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  1. ^ Fournier, R. L. Basic Transport Phenomena in Biomedical Engineering 1st edn (Taylor & Francis, London, 1999).
  2. ^ Choi et al. Microfluidic scaffolds for tissue engineering. Nature Materials (2007) vol. 6 pp. 908-915