Strategies to direct the enrichment, expansion, and recruitment of regulatory cells for the treatment of disease.

abstract：:One goal of large scale clinical trials is to determine how a drug is processed by, and cleared from, the human body [i.e., its pharmacokinetic (PK) properties] and how these PK properties differ between individuals in a population (i.e., its population PK properties). Due to the high cost of these studies and the lim...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Hooker AC,Foracchia M,Dodds MG,Vicini P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Instrumentation systems for breath-to-breath analysis of respiratory gas exchange have been faulted by phase lags between various flow and composition signals and by difficulties in gathering and processing large amounts of data. The system described here represents an attempt to overcome these problems. Phase delays ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Sodal IE,Swanson GD,Micco AJ,Sprague F,Ellis DG

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal and spatial distribution of coronary blood flow, pressure, and volume are determined by the branching pattern and three-dimensional (3-D) geometry of the coronary vasculature, and by the mechanics of heart wall and vascular tone. Consequently, a realistic simulation of coronary blood flow requires, as a f...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Kaimovitz B,Lanir Y,Kassab GS

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical properties of the cardiac tissue play an important role in normal heart function. The goal of this study was to determine the passive mechanical properties of all heart chambers through a paired comparison study in an ovine model. Ovine heart was used due its physiological and anatomical similarities to hum...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Javani S,Gordon M,Azadani AN

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When cells and the matrix of a tissue remodel, the mechanical properties of the tissue do change. The mechanical properties are expressed by constitutive equations. In this article the remodeling of the constitutive equation of the pulmonary artery is studied. The remodeling was induced in a rat breathing a gas whose ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Huang W,Delgado-West D,Wu JT,Fung YC

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research in cellular adhesion has focused primarily on studying isolated cells under conditions where cells do not interact with each other. However, in vivo cells form sheets where both cell-substratum and cell-cell interactions contribute to the overall adhesive behavior. Our understanding of how cell-cell ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Peel MM,DiMilla PA

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pressure ulcers (PUs) can occur in any situations where people are subjected to non-uniform distribution of pressure over a prolonged period. They can have devastating effects on the patients' well-being and in extreme conditions can prove fatal. In addition to traditional wisdom implicating mechanically induced ischa...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Mirtaheri P,Gjøvaag T,Worsley PR,Bader DL

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of prevention strategies is critical to address the rising prevalence of sport-related concussions. Visual and sensory performance may influence an individual's ability to interpret environmental cues, anticipate opponents' actions, and create appropriate motor responses limiting the severity of an imp...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Harpham JA,Mihalik JP,Littleton AC,Frank BS,Guskiewicz KM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deformational loading represents a primary component of the chondrocyte physical environment in vivo. This review summarizes our experience with physiologic deformational loading of chondrocyte-seeded agarose hydrogels to promote development of cartilage constructs having mechanical properties matching that of the par...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Hung CT,Mauck RL,Wang CC,Lima EG,Ateshian GA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, advances in computing power and computational methods have made it possible to perform detailed simulations of the coronary artery stenting procedure and of related virtual tests of performance (including fatigue resistance, corrosion and haemodynamic disturbance). Simultaneously, there has been a gro...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Bressloff NW,Ragkousis G,Curzen N

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of increasingly complex integrated cellular systems will be a major challenge for the next decade and beyond, as we apply the knowledge gained from the sub-disciplines of regenerative medicine, synthetic biology, micro-fabrication and nanotechnology, systems biology, and developmental biology. In this pros...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Kamm RD,Bashir R

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three animal models were evaluated in this study involving head impacts of the rat, including the Marmarou drop-weight and two momentum-exchange techniques. In series 1, 36 Wistar rats were hit on the side of the free-moving head using Marmarou's 450 g impact mass at 4.4, 5.4, and 6.3 m/s. Head acceleration was measur...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Viano DC,Hamberger A,Bolouri H,Säljö A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major drawback in the operation of mechanical heart valve prostheses is thrombus formation in the near valve region. Detailed flow analysis in this region during the valve closure phase is of interest in understanding the relationship between shear stress and platelet activation. A fixed-grid Cartesian mesh flow sol...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Krishnan S,Udaykumar HS,Marshall JS,Chandran KB

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pressure ulcer risk assessment might be optimized by incorporating the soft tissue reaction to mechanical loading in the currently used risk assessment scales. Cytokines, like IL-1alpha, IL-1RA, IL-8, and TNF-alpha, might be used to determine this tissue reaction, since they are released after 24 h of mechanical loadi...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Cornelissen LH,Bronneberg D,Bader DL,Baaijens FP,Oomens CW

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional histologic methods provide valuable information regarding the physical nature of damage in fatigue-loaded tendons, limited to thin, two-dimensional sections. We introduce an imaging method that characterizes tendon microstructure three-dimensionally and develop quantitative, spatial measures of damage for...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Fung DT,Sereysky JB,Basta-Pljakic J,Laudier DM,Huq R,Jepsen KJ,Schaffler MB,Flatow EL

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multiphoton fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (MP-FRAP) technique has been developed to measure the three-dimensional (3D) solute diffusion within biological systems. However, current 3D MP-FRAP models are based on isotropic diffusion and spatial domain analysis. The 3D anisotropic diffusion and frequency...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Shi C,Cisewski SE,Bell PD,Yao H

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microfluidic devices fabricated using poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) polymer are routinely used for in vitro cell culture for a wide range of cellular assays. These assays typically involve the incubation of cultured cells with a drug molecule or a fluorescent marker while monitoring a cellular response. The accuracy o...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Wang JD,Douville NJ,Takayama S,ElSayed M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cable model is formulated to estimate the spatial distribution of intracellular electric potential and current, from the cement line to the lumen of an osteon, as the frequency of the loading and the conductance of the gap junction are altered. The model predicts that the characteristic diffusion time for the spread...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Zhang D,Cowin SC,Weinbaum S

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study pulsatile pressure-flow rate relationships in the intact pulmonary vascular network of mice, we developed a protocol for measuring pulmonary vascular resistance and impedance in isolated, ventilated, and perfused mouse lungs. We used pulmonary emboli to validate the effect of vascular obstruction on resistanc...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Tuchscherer HA,Webster EB,Chesler NC

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents two related methods for registering an image of an anatomical object with data from sensors arranged on the object. One method is described with reference to a test case involving a rectangular electrode plaque disposed on a heart surface, which is imaged with MRI. Data from the electrodes is fused...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Hopenfeld B,Ashikaga H,McVeigh ER

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical potentials in mechanically loaded bone have been implicated as signals in the bone remodeling cycle. Recently, interest has grown in exploiting this phenomenon to develop electrically active ceramics for implantation in hard tissue which may induce improved biological responses. Both polarized hydroxyapatit...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Baxter FR,Bowen CR,Turner IG,Dent AC

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much effort is expended in developing biomimetic scaffolds that provide the micro-architecture of native tissue with appropriate cellular niches. Such scaffolds are often seeded with progenitor cells to generate engineered replacements for diseased or damaged tissues. An alternative approach relies on biology, rather ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Evans CH

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to quantify the elongation patterns of the collateral ligaments following TKA during functional activities of daily living. Using mobile video-fluoroscopy to capture radiographic images of the knee in a group of six patients, each with an ultra-congruent knee implant, tibiofemoral kinematics were reco...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Hosseini Nasab SH,Smith CR,Schütz P,Damm P,Trepczynski A,List R,Taylor WR

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A flow diverter (FD) is a flexible, densely braided stent-mesh device placed endoluminally across an intracranial aneurysm to induce its thrombotic occlusion. FD treatment planning using computational virtual stenting and flow simulation requires accurate representation of the expanded FD geometry. We have recently de...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Ma D,Dumont TM,Kosukegawa H,Ohta M,Yang X,Siddiqui AH,Meng H

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The false vocal folds are believed to be components of the acoustic filter that is responsible for shaping the voice. However, the effects of false vocal folds on the vocal fold vibration and the glottal aerodynamic during phonation remain unclear. This effect has implications for computational modeling of phonation a...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Zheng X,Bielamowicz S,Luo H,Mittal R

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Collagen is known to be a viscoelastic material and therefore is an important source of time dependent behavior in soft tissue. Though there are material models for soft tissue that rely on properties and structure of constituent collagen fibers, such models generally utilize only the elastic properties of collagen, a...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Bischoff JE

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While viscoelastic responses of isolated trunk soft tissues have been characterized in earlier studies, the effects of external loading and flexion rate on these responses in the intact human trunk are largely unknown. Two experiments were conducted to measure trunk viscoelastic behaviors, one involving prolonged flex...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Toosizadeh N,Nussbaum MA

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison was made between turbulence calculated by subtracting an ensemble average from the instantaneous velocity and calculations made with a high pass digital filter. Velocity was measured with a laser Doppler anemometer in vitro in the region of a normal porcine aortic valve and in patients with a hot film ane...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Walburn FJ,Sabbah HN,Stein PD

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a system for real-time control of biological and other experiments. This device, based around the Real-Time Linux operating system, was tested specifically in the context of dynamic clamping, a demanding real-time task in which a computational system mimics the effects of nonlinear membrane conductances in...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Dorval AD,Christini DJ,White JA

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The finite element method is employed to simulate two-dimensional (axisymmetric) drug diffusion from a finite drug reservoir into the skin. The numerical formulation is based on a general mathematical model for multicomponent nonlinear diffusion that takes into account the coupling effects between the different compon...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Rim JE,Pinsky PM,van Osdol WW

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00