Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Blood Circulation

Blood circulation is the continuous movement of blood through the heart and the systemic and pulmonary vascular networks, delivering oxygen, nutrients, hormones, and immune cells to tissues while removing carbon dioxide and metabolic waste. Driven by cardiac pumping and regulated by vascular tone, baroreflex control…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 65× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 3070-1937 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Blood circulation is the continuous movement of blood through the heart and the systemic and pulmonary vascular networks, delivering oxygen, nutrients, hormones, and immune cells to tissues while removing carbon dioxide and metabolic waste. Driven by cardiac pumping and regulated by vascular tone, baroreflex control, and microvascular dynamics, circulation maintains tissue perfusion, thermoregulation, and homeostasis, and its impairment underlies ischemia, thrombosis, and organ dysfunction. In the transfusion and vascular-medicine literature, circulation is studied in relation to tissue oxygenation, hemodynamics, microvascular and leukocyte behavior, and the physiological consequences of disease states. The peer-reviewed work in this area reflects these themes, including leukocyte recruitment and migration in COVID-19-associated lung injury, altered Valsalva hemodynamics and tissue oxygenation in type 1 diabetes, intravascular laser irradiation of blood in relation to sleep quality, the use of convalescent plasma to address circulating pathogens, and the management of antioxidant status in metabolic syndrome. Studies of vasoactive substances and chronic disease situate circulation within broader pathophysiology. Methods span hemodynamic measurement, microvascular and physiological assessment, clinical intervention, and mechanistic review. This body of research treats blood circulation as the integrative transport system whose regulation and disturbance bear directly on oxygen delivery, vascular health, and the management of systemic disease.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 65 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Blood Circulation, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Blood Transfusion (ISSN 3070-1937).

Journal editorial board
PROF OSARO ERHABOR · United Kingdom Nobu Akiyama · Japan Young-Kyun Lee · South Korea

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