Creating living cellular machines.

abstract：:"Smart" drug delivery systems should be selective and effective to ensure drug administration at the right time, at the right dosage, and anywhere in the body. Among the several administration routes and delivery systems that have been proposed, one of the most effective and promising is based on microfabricated parti...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Decuzzi P,Lee S,Decuzzi M,Ferrari M

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CM) provide a powerful platform for disease modeling and drug development in vitro. Traditionally, electrophysiological methods or fluorescent dyes (e.g. calcium) have been used in their functional characterization. Recently, video microscopy has enabled non-i...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Ahola A,Pölönen RP,Aalto-Setälä K,Hyttinen J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crowding can substantially affect the transition of a protein between its native (N) and unfolded (U) states via volume exclusion effects. Also, it influences considerably the aggregation (A) of unfolded proteins. To examine the details, we developed an approach for computing the kinetic rates of the process N <--> U ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Despa F,Orgill DP,Lee RC

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop a mathematical model of nanoparticles depositing onto and penetrating into a biofilm grown in a parallel-plate flow cell. We carry out deposition experiments in a flow cell to support the modeling. The modeling and the experiments are motivated by the potential use of polymer nanoparticles as part of a trea...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Miller JK,Neubig R,Clemons CB,Kreider KL,Wilber JP,Young GW,Ditto AJ,Yun YH,Milsted A,Badawy HT,Panzner MJ,Youngs WJ,Cannon CL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium phosphate ceramics have been widely used for filling bone defects to aid in the regeneration of new bone tissue. Addition of osteogenic cells to porous ceramic scaffolds may accelerate the bone repair process. This study demonstrates the feasibility of culturing marrow stromal cells (MSCs) on porous biphasic c...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Holtorf HL,Sheffield TL,Ambrose CG,Jansen JA,Mikos AG

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For highly diffusive solutes the kinetics of blood-tissue exchange is only poorly represented by a model consisting of sets of independent parallel capillary-tissue units. We constructed a more realistic multicapillary network model conforming statistically to morphometric data. Flows through the tortuous paths in the...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Beard DA,Bassingthwaighte JB

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A vaccine that induces broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) would be instrumental in controlling the disease. The membrane proximal external region (MPER) peptide is an appealing antigen candidate since it is conserved and is the target of several human bnAbs, such as ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Shao S,Huang WC,Lin C,Hicar MD,LaBranche CC,Montefiori DC,Lovell JF

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pericellular matrix (PCM) is a region of tissue that surrounds chondrocytes in articular cartilage and together with the enclosed cells is termed the chondron. Previous studies suggest that the mechanical properties of the PCM, relative to those of the chondrocyte and the extracellular matrix (ECM), may significan...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Guilak F,Alexopoulos LG,Haider MA,Ting-Beall HP,Setton LA

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current paradigm in tissue engineering is that "full regeneration" or "total replacement" of normal tissue is required in order to restore joint function. However, there is considerable evidence that suggests that targets other than "normality" may actually be required for tissue substitutes. Sometimes "less than ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Frank CB,Shrive NG,Boorman RS,Lo IK,Hart DA

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method of investigating head acceleration and intracranial dynamics from stick impacts in girls' and women's lacrosse was developed using headform impact experiments and a finite element head model. Assessing the likelihood of head injury due to stick-head impacts is of interest in girls' and women's lacrosse due to...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Morse JD,Franck JA,Wilcox BJ,Crisco JJ,Franck C

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental studies have shown that cardiac fibroblasts are electrically inexcitable, but can contribute to electrophysiology of myocardium in various manners. The aim of this computational study was to give insights in the electrophysiological role of fibroblasts and their interaction with myocytes. We developed a m...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Sachse FB,Moreno AP,Abildskov JA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is caused by extensive pulmonary vascular remodeling that increases right ventricular (RV) afterload and leads to RV failure. PAH predominantly affects women; paradoxically, female PAH patients have better outcomes than men. The roles of estrogen in PAH remain controversial, which...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Liu A,Hacker T,Eickhoff JC,Chesler NC

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a personal historical essay on meanderings through the jungle of the microcirculatory swamp. Because one pretends that the wandering was purposefully exploratory, a few guideposts are placed at positions where one could discern blaze-marks from earlier wanderers, and the path cut a little wider along some of t...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Bassingthwaighte JB

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gap junctions play a fundamental role in intercellular communication in cardiac tissue. Various types of heart disease including hypertrophy and ischemia are associated with alterations of the spatial arrangement of gap junctions. Previous studies applied two-dimensional optical and electron-microscopy to visualize ga...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Lackey DP,Carruth ED,Lasher RA,Boenisch J,Sachse FB,Hitchcock RW

更新日期：2011-11-01 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

abstract：:The contractile power of the latissimus dorsi muscle (LDM) is used in skeletal muscle cardiac assist (SMCA) to augment the blood pumping ability of a failing heart. The LDM has three anatomically distinct, independently innervate segments-the transverse, oblique, and lateral. There are potential advantages to selectiv...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Thompson DR,Michele JJ,Cheever EA,George DT

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a multiphysical mathematical model by fully coupling lipid deposition, monocytes/macrophages recruitment and angiogenesis to investigate the pathophysiological responses of an atherosclerotic plaque to the dynamic changes in the microenvironment. The time evolutions of cellular (endothelial cells, macrophag...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Guo M,Cai Y,He C,Li Z

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient homotypic adhesions between flowing leukocytes and those previously adherent on the vessel wall has been proposed to amplify the accumulation of leukocytes at sites of inflammation. While adhesion of leukocytes to the vessel wall (primary capture) is mediated primarily by P-selectin on the endothelium and P-...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Paschall CD,Lawrence MB

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerical models of the mitral valve have been used to elucidate mitral valve function and mechanics. These models have evolved from simple two-dimensional approximations to complex three-dimensional fully coupled fluid structure interaction models. However, to date these models lack direct one-to-one experimental val...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Rabbah JP,Saikrishnan N,Yoganathan AP

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of arterial coculture conditions on the transport properties of several in vitro endothelial cell (EC)-smooth muscle cell (SMC)-porous filter constructs in which SMC were grown to confluence first and then EC were inoculated. This order of culturing simulates the env...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Mathura RA,Russell-Puleri S,Cancel LM,Tarbell JM

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：:Of the many models of peripheral nerve in the literature, essentially all have relied on experimentally derived values for the anisotropic resistivity of the nerve bundle interstitial space. This paper is a comprehensive mathematical analysis of the most referenced experiment for the longitudinal and radial resistivit...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Altman KW,Plonsey R

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:This study presents a novel approach to modeling the electrocardiogram (ECG): the Gaussian pulse decomposition. Constituent waves of the ECG are decomposed into and represented by Gaussian pulses using an iterative algorithm: the chip away decomposition (ChAD) algorithm. At each iteration, a nonlinear minimization met...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Suppappola S,Sun Y,Chiaramida SA

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-frequency ventilation (HFV) has not one but several histories. Proceeding along largely independent pathways are techniques using frequencies of 1-5 Hz and techniques using 10-40 Hz, the former being introduced by Sjostrand in 1971, the latter by Lunkenheimer in 1972. It was nearly ten years before it was recogni...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Bryan AC

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a method of measuring force response of a single living cell, attached to a substrate, in situ, by a functionalized microelectromechanical systems sensor that applies local deformation on the cell. The sensor is a single crystal silicon microcantilever beam with prescribed shape and geometry, and is coated ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Saif MT,Sager CR,Coyer S

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a novel method to reconstruct the hypothetical geometry of the healthy vasculature prior to intracranial aneurysm (IA) formation: a Frenet frame is calculated along the skeletonization of the arterial geometry; upstream and downstream boundaries of the aneurysmal segment are expressed in terms of the local ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Chen H,Selimovic A,Thompson H,Chiarini A,Penrose J,Ventikos Y,Watton PN

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of wave propagation phenomena, namely global reflection coefficient (gamma G[omega]) and pulse wave velocity (Cph), are studied in a model of the coupled left ventricle/arterial system. The left ventricle consists of a time-varying elastance, while the arterial system is modeled as a single, uniform, elast...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Berger DS,Li JK,Noordergraaf A

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The field of tissue engineering promises to deliver biological substitutes to repair or replace tissues in the body that have been injured or diseased. The clinical demand for musculoskeletal tissues is particularly high, especially for cartilage and bone defects. Although they are generally considered biologically si...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Sharma B,Elisseeff JH

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study various blood rheological assumptions are numerically investigated for the hemodynamic properties of intra-stent flow. Non-newtonian blood properties have never been implemented in blood coronary stented flow investigation, although its effects appear essential for a correct estimation and distribution o...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Benard N,Perrault R,Coisne D

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00