Figure 3
Examples of stress alteration at vessels which are only few microns apart. (A) Three different stresses in three branches of a bifurcation point show how the direction of vessels may result in three different levels of vascular stretching. (B) Capillaries branching out from a vessel with non-uniform stress distribution due to propagation of capillaries in different directions, (C) Capillaries with different stresses even though they are branching out from the same vessels and bifurcation points.
