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“Ask it shall be given.” The heart and the peripheral organs it supplies is like a mother and her children. The mother heart is the source of all sustenance, its oxygenated and energy substrate-richblood (cardiac output). Some of the organs are more demanding;at rest, more blood flow/weight of the organ. There is anunequal distribution of cardiac outputto the different organs. In specific situations,there is a redistribution of cardiac output based on the differential functional needs of the organs. In general, a greater demand for oxygen/energy by a particular organ will lead to an increased blood flow to that tissue. The mother heart pampers all her children and gives more of its generous life-giving output to whichever organ that ask for more!
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Cheng, H. (2015). Regional Local Flow Regulation. In: Physiology Question-Based Learning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12790-3_5
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