Oxygen delivery from the cerebral microvasculature to tissue is governed by a single time constant of approximately 6 seconds.
Stephen John PayneClaire LucasPublished in: Microcirculation (New York, N.Y. : 1994) (2018)
The overall response time for the whole network is approximately 6 seconds; this value indicates that the flow response to increases in metabolic activity cannot be driven solely by changes in tissue oxygenation.
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