Editing Perfusion (section)

==Discovery==
In 1920, [[August Krogh]] was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] for his discovering the mechanism of regulation of [[capillaries]] in [[skeletal muscle]].<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Larsen | first1 = E. H. | title = August Krogh (1874–1949): 1920 Nobel Prize | journal = Ugeskrift for Laeger | volume = 169 | issue = 35 | pages = 2878 | year = 2007 | pmid = 17877986}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Sulek | first1 = K. | title = Nobel prize for August Krogh in 1920 for his discovery of regulative mechanism in the capillaries | journal = Wiadomosci Lekarskie  | volume = 20 | issue = 19 | pages = 1829 | year = 1967 | pmid = 4870667}}</ref> Krogh was the first to describe the adaptation of blood perfusion in muscle and other organs according to demands through the opening and closing of [[arterioles]] and [[capillaries]].{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}