The importance of the pericardium for cardiac biomechanics: from physiology to computational modeling.

abstract：:Uniaxial tensile and relaxation tests were carried out on annulus fibrosus samples carved out in the circumferential direction. Images were shot perpendicularly to the loading direction. Digital image correlation techniques accurately measured the evolution of full displacement fields in both transverse directions: pl...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Baldit A,Ambard D,Cherblanc F,Royer P

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pelvic floor dysfunction and pelvic organ prolapse have been associated with damage to the levator ani (LA) muscle, but the exact mechanisms linking them remain unknown. It has been postulated that factors such as vaginal birth and ageing may contribute to long-term, irreversible LA muscle damage. To investigate the b...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Li X,Kruger JA,Nash MP,Nielsen PM

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a multiscale mechanobiological model of bone remodelling to investigate the site-specific evolution of bone volume fraction across the midshaft of a femur. The model includes hormonal regulation and biochemical coupling of bone cell populations, the influence of the microstructure on bone turnover rate, and...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Lerebours C,Buenzli PR,Scheiner S,Pivonka P

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, the heat and flow characteristic of third-grade non-Newtonian biofluids flow through a vertical porous human vessel due to peristaltic wall motion are studied. The third-grade model can describe shear thinning (or shear thickening) and normal stress differences, which is acceptable for biofluids modelin...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Akbarzadeh P

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemolysis is a major concern in blood-circulating devices, which arises due to hydrodynamic loading on red blood cells from ambient flow environment. Hemolysis estimation models have often been used to aid hemocompatibility design. The preponderance of hemolysis models was formulated on the basis of laminar flows. How...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Wu P,Gao Q,Hsu PL

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dynamic model is proposed for shear stress induced adenosine triphosphate (ATP) release from endothelial cells (ECs). The dynamic behavior of the ATP/ADP concentration at the endothelial surface by viscous shear flow is investigated through simulation studies based on the dynamic ATP release model. The numerical res...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Qin KR,Xiang C,Xu Z,Cao LL,Ge SS,Jiang ZL

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose and analyse the properties of a new class of models for the electromechanics of cardiac tissue. The set of governing equations consists of nonlinear elasticity using a viscoelastic and orthotropic exponential constitutive law, for both active stress and active strain formulations of active mechanics, couple...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Propp A,Gizzi A,Levrero-Florencio F,Ruiz-Baier R

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The action induced by artificial sphincteric devices to provide urinary continence is related to the problem of evaluating the interaction between the occlusive cuff and the urethral duct. The intensity and distribution of the force induced within the region of application determine a different occlusion process and p...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Natali AN,Carniel EL,Fontanella CG,Todros S,De Benedictis GM,Cerruto MA,Artibani W

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two main load bearing tissues of the intervertebral disc are the nucleus pulposus and the annulus fibrosus. Both tissues are composed of the same basic components, but differ in their organization and relative amounts. With degeneration, the clear distinction between the two tissues disappears. The changes in bioc...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： van Rijsbergen MM,Barthelemy VM,Vrancken AC,Crijns SP,Wilke HJ,Wilson W,van Rietbergen B,Ito K

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Digital models based on finite element (FE) analysis are widely used in orthopaedics to predict the stress or strain in the bone due to bone-implant interaction. The usability of the model depends strongly on the bone material description. The material model that is most commonly used is based on a constant Young's mo...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Henyš P,Čapek L

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuum mechanical tools are used to describe the deformation, energy density, and material symmetry of a lipid bilayer with spontaneous curvature. In contrast to conventional approaches in which lipid bilayers are modeled by material surfaces, here we rely on a three-dimensional approach in which a lipid bilayer is...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Maleki M,Seguin B,Fried E

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The integrity of articular cartilage depends on the proper functioning and mechanical stimulation of chondrocytes, the cells that synthesize extracellular matrix and maintain tissue health. The biosynthetic activity of chondrocytes is influenced by genetic factors, environmental influences, extracellular matrix compos...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Han SK,Federico S,Grillo A,Giaquinta G,Herzog W

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The veins distributing oxygenated blood from the placenta to the fetal body have been given much attention in clinical Doppler velocimetry studies, in particular the ductus venosus. The ductus venosus is embedded in the left liver lobe and connects the intra-abdominal portion of the umbilical vein (IUV) directly to th...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Leinan PR,Degroote J,Kiserud T,Skallerud B,Vierendeels J,Hellevik LR

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Finite element (FE) simulations of contractile responses of vascular muscular thin films (vMTFs) and endothelial cells resting on an array of microposts under stimulation of soluble factors were conducted in comparison with experimental measurements reported in the literature. Two types of constitutive models were emp...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Liu T

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin expansion delivers newly grown skin that maintains histological and mechanical features of the original tissue. Although it is the gold standard for cutaneous defect correction today, the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here we present a novel technique to quantify anisotropic prestrain, deformati...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Buganza Tepole A,Gart M,Purnell CA,Gosain AK,Kuhl E

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental evidence suggests that interstitial fluid flow is a stimulus for mechanoadaptation in bone. Bone adaptation is sensitive to the frequency of loading and rest insertion between load cycles. We investigated the effects of permeability, frequency and rest insertion on fluid flow in bone using finite-element ...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Pereira AF,Shefelbine SJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During total liquid ventilation, lung cells are exposed to perfluorocarbon (PFC) whose chemophysical properties highly differ from standard aqueous cell feeding medium (DMEM). We herein perform a systematic study of structural and mechanical properties of A549 alveolar epithelial cells in order to characterize their r...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： André Dias S,Planus E,Angely C,Lotteau L,Tissier R,Filoche M,Louis B,Pelle G,Isabey D

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Articular cartilage is a complex, anisotropic, stratified tissue with remarkable resilience and mechanical properties. It has been subject to extensive modelling as a multiphase medium, with many recent studies examining the impact of increasing detail in the representation of this tissue's fine scale structure. Howev...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Klika V,Whiteley JP,Brown CP,Gaffney EA

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the complete three-dimensional (3D) mechanical behavior of soft tissues is essential in understanding their pathophysiology and in developing novel therapies. Despite significant progress made in experimentation and modeling, a complete approach for the full characterization of soft tissue 3D behavior rem...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Avazmohammadi R,Li DS,Leahy T,Shih E,Soares JS,Gorman JH,Gorman RC,Sacks MS

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombosis is a major concern in blood-coated medical devices. Contact activation, which is the initial part of the coagulation cascade in device-related thrombosis, is not considered in current thrombus formation models. In the present study, pro-coagulant reactions including the contact activation system are coupled...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Méndez Rojano R,Mendez S,Nicoud F

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue morphogenesis in multicellular organisms is accompanied by proliferative cell behaviors: cell division (increase in cell number after each cell cycle) and cell growth (increase in cell volume during each cell cycle). These proliferative cell behaviors can be regulated by multicellular dynamics to achieve proper...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Okuda S,Inoue Y,Eiraku M,Sasai Y,Adachi T

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasal emission is a speech disorder where undesired airflow enters the nasal cavity during speech due to inadequate closure of the velopharyngeal valve. Nasal emission is typically inaudible with large velopharyngeal openings and very distorting with small openings. This study aims to understand how flow characteristi...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Sundström E,Boyce S,Oren L

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a growing interest in the development of patient-specific finite element models of the human lumbar spine for both the assessment of injury risk and the development of treatment strategies. A current challenge in implementing these models is that the outer annulus fibrosus of the disc is composed of concentri...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Michalek AJ

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research studies dynamic culture for 3D tissue construct development with computational fluid dynamics. It proposes a mathematical model to evaluate the impact of flow rates and flow shear stress on cell growth in 3D constructs under perfusion. The modeling results show that dynamic flow, even at flow rate as low...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Liu D,Chua CK,Leong KF

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of only a few approved and available anabolic treatments for severe osteoporosis is daily injections of PTH (1-34). This drug has a specific dual action which can act either anabolically or catabolically depending on the type of administration, i.e. intermittent or continuous, respectively. In this paper, we prese...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Lavaill M,Trichilo S,Scheiner S,Forwood MR,Cooper DML,Pivonka P

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reopening of fluid-occluded pulmonary airways generates microbubble flows which impart complex hydrodynamic stresses to the epithelial cells lining airway walls. In this study we used boundary element solutions and finite element techniques to investigate how cell rheology influences the deformation and injury of ...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Dailey HL,Ghadiali SN

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A contact finite element (FE) formulation is introduced, amenable to patient-specific analysis of cumulative cartilage mechano-stimulus attributable to habitual functional activity. CT scans of individual human ankles are segmented to delineate bony margins. Each bone surface is projected outward to create a second su...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Anderson DD,Goldsworthy JK,Shivanna K,Grosland NM,Pedersen DR,Thomas TP,Tochigi Y,Marsh JL,Brown TD

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flow-induced damage to red blood cells has been an issue of considerable importance since the introduction of the first cardiovascular devices. Early blood damage prediction models were based on measurements of damage by shear stress only. Subsequently, these models were extrapolated to include other components of the...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Faghih MM,Sharp MK

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical cues that trigger pathological remodeling in smooth muscle tissues remain largely unknown and are thought to be pivotal triggers for strain-induced remodeling. Thus, an understanding of the effects mechanical stimulation is important to elucidate underlying mechanisms of disease states and in the developmen...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Heise RL,Parekh A,Joyce EM,Chancellor MB,Sacks MS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We use supersonic shear wave imaging (SSI) technique to measure not only the linear but also the nonlinear elastic properties of brain matter. Here, we tested six porcine brains ex vivo and measured the velocities of the plane shear waves induced by acoustic radiation force at different states of pre-deformation when ...

journal_title：Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology

authors： Jiang Y,Li G,Qian LX,Liang S,Destrade M,Cao Y

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00