Paul Saladino· MD
the glycocalyx so that's an inner lining of the artery like a sear like a a hairy forest that protects the inner lining the endothelium and that pins out the endothelial cells at the branch points also are more misaligned and less contiguous or joined together perfectly and you get turbulence as you mentioned so we knew of good shear flow in a straight section of archery all the signaling through the glycocalyx forests of hairs layer triggers nitric oxide and keeps vasodilation expansion of the artery working properly