Fig. 3. Blood flow over the (A,B) dorsal and (C,D) abdominal skin of one thermally
non-challenged pigeon (Columba livia). (A) Control. (B) Nitric oxide
(NO) gel treatment. (C) Control. (D) NO gel treatment. BPU, blood perfusion
unit. The arrow denotes the time of gel application. Stabilized blood flow
over a 10-min period is presented as charts based on raw numerical flow
data.