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Krogh length

Distance nutrients diffuse between capillaries From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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]

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