Mechanisms of interstitial flow-induced remodeling of fibroblast-collagen cultures.

abstract：:Rod photoreceptors express a unique type of noninactivating potassium channels, Kx channels, which play an important role in setting the dark potential and participate in shaping the light response. Biophysical studies of Kx channels are limited. For example, the effects of a conventional blocker of potassium channels...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Liu XD,Kourennyi DE

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emerging field of micro-technology has opened up new possibilities for exploring cellular chemotaxis in real space and time, and at single cell resolution. Chemotactic cells sense and move in response to chemical gradients and play important roles in a number of physiological and pathological processes, including ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Kim BJ,Wu M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional outcomes, such as joint flexion and gait, are important indicators of efficacy in musculoskeletal research. Current technologies that objectively assess these parameters, including visual tracking systems and force plates, are challenging to deploy in long-term translational and clinical studies. To that en...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Qu F,Stoeckl BD,Gebhard PM,Hullfish TJ,Baxter JR,Mauck RL

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of gene therapy and chemotherapy has showed increased therapeutic efficacy in the treatment of cancers, but it is not well investigated about the actual coordination pattern between therapeutic gene and chemical drug. In this work, p53/BPEI-β-CD/AD-dox complex was fabricated and employed to investigate...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Xie B,Peng J,Wang S,Zhang X,Nie H

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The field of percutaneous coronary intervention has witnessed many progressions over the last few decades, more recently with the advancement of fully degradable bioabsorbable stents. Bioabsorbable materials, such as metallic alloys and aliphatic polyesters, have the potential to yield stents which provide temporary s...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Boland EL,Shine R,Kelly N,Sweeney CA,McHugh PE

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Step-off edges and tissue interfaces are prevalent in cartilage injury such as after intra-articular fracture and reduction, and in focal defects and surgical repair procedures such as osteochondral graft implantation. It would be useful to assess the function of injured or donor tissues near such step-off edges and t...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Bae WC,Law AW,Amiel D,Sah RL

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical cues arising from extracellular matrices greatly affect cellular properties, and hence, are of significance in designing biomaterials. In this study, a DNA crosslinked hydrogel was employed to examine cellular responses of spinal cord neurons to substrate compliances. Using DNA as crosslinkers in polymeric ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Jiang FX,Yurke B,Firestein BL,Langrana NA

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intra-cardiac flow has been explored for decades but there is still no consensus on whether or not healthy left ventricles (LV) may harbour turbulent-like flow despite its potential physiological and clinical relevance. The purpose of this study is to elucidate if a healthy LV could harbour flow instabilities, using i...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Chnafa C,Mendez S,Nicoud F

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In physiological conditions, joint function involves continuously moving contact areas over the tissue surface. Such moving contacts play an important role for the durability of the tissue. It is known that in pathological joints these motion paths and contact mechanics change. Nevertheless, limited information exists...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Schätti OR,Gallo LM,Torzilli PA

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Baseball players swung very light and very heavy bats through our instrument and the speed of the bat was recorded. These data were used to make mathematical models for each person. Then these models were coupled with equations of physics for bat-ball collisions to compute the Ideal Bat Weight for each individual. How...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Bahill AT,Freitas MM

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymeric heart valves have the potential to reduce thrombogenic complications associated with current mechanical valves and overcome fatigue-related problems experienced by bioprosthetic valves. In this paper we characterize the in vitro velocity and Reynolds Shear Stress (RSS) fields inside and downstream of three d...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Leo HL,Dasi LP,Carberry J,Simon HA,Yoganathan AP

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：:An MR image-based computational model of a murine KHT sarcoma is presented that allows the calculation of plasma fluid and solute transport within tissue. Such image-based models of solid tumors may be used to optimize patient-specific therapies. This model incorporates heterogeneous vasculature and tissue porosity to...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Pishko GL,Astary GW,Mareci TH,Sarntinoranont M

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:Numerous head injury models exist that vary in mesh density by orders of magnitude. A careful study of the mesh convergence behavior is necessary, especially in terms of strain most relevant to brain injury. To this end, as well as to investigate the effect of element integration scheme on simulated strains, we re-mes...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Zhao W,Ji S

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we present a novel, robust method to couple finite element (FE) models of cardiac mechanics to systems models of the circulation (CIRC), independent of cardiac phase. For each time step through a cardiac cycle, left and right ventricular pressures were calculated using ventricular compliances from the FE...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Kerckhoffs RC,Neal ML,Gu Q,Bassingthwaighte JB,Omens JH,McCulloch AD

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Registration of bone structures is a common problem in medical research as well as in clinical applications. Intrasubject rigid 3D monomodality registration of segmented bone structures of CT images and multimodality registration of muMR and segmented muCT bone images were performed with the multiresolution intensity-...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Museyko O,Eisa F,Hess A,Schett G,Kalender WA,Engelke K

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of cell shortening is an important technique for assessment of physiology and pathophysiology of cardiac myocytes. Many types of heart disease are associated with decreased myocyte shortening, which is commonly caused by structural and functional remodeling. Here, we present a new approach for local measur...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Lichter J,Li H,Sachse FB

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：: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 responses of photoreceptor cells to moving stimuli are crucial to understanding motion detection in visual systems. However, these responses are not well characterized quantitatively because they result from a combination of spatial optical behavior in the lens systems with temporal behavior in the phototransducti...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Korenberg MJ,Juusola M,French AS

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses the dynamics of the circus movement around a one-dimensional continuous and uniform loop of model cardiac cells. The membrane ionic currents are represented by a modified Beeler-Reuter formulation. The description of the quasiperiodic regimes initiated in a previous paper is completed and their eq...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Vinet A

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nose is the front line defender of the respiratory system. Unsteady simulations in three-dimensional models have been developed to study transport patterns in the human nose and its overall air-conditioning capacity. The results suggested that the healthy nose can efficiently provide about 90% of the heat and the ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Naftali S,Rosenfeld M,Wolf M,Elad D

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：:Image registration and motion estimation play central roles in many fields, including RADAR, SONAR, light microscopy, and medical imaging. Because of its central significance, estimator accuracy, precision, and computational cost are of critical importance. We have previously presented a highly accurate, spline-based ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Viola F,Coe RL,Owen K,Guenther DA,Walker WF

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxic or therapeutic effect of an inhaled aerosol is highly dependent upon the site and extent of deposition in the lung. A novel MRI-based method was used to quantify the spatial distribution of particles in the rat lung. Rats were exposed to 0.95 μm-diameter iron oxide particles in a controlled manner (N = 6) or...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Oakes JM,Scadeng M,Breen EC,Prisk GK,Darquenne C

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal physiological mechanical forces cause constant tissue renewal in aortic valve leaflets (AVL) while altered mechanical forces incite changes in their structural and biological properties. The current study aims at characterizing the remodeling properties of AVL subjected to cyclic circumferential stretch in a st...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Balachandran K,Konduri S,Sucosky P,Jo H,Yoganathan AP

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An algorithm to track a rat swimming in a Morris Water Maze has been developed. The system is automatically configured to any pool and relative suitable light conditions. It tracks the rat's position and head pose 10 times per second. The output data is displayed in a bitmap and also in a text file. The system was tes...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Hval ES,Barrett SF,Wilcox M,Bailey TA

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid technological advances have prompted the development of a wide range of telemonitoring systems to enable the prevention, early diagnosis and management, of chronic conditions. Remote monitoring can reduce the amount of recurring admissions to hospital, facilitate more efficient clinical visits with objective res...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Ní Scanaill C,Carew S,Barralon P,Noury N,Lyons D,Lyons GM

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A role for mechanical stimulation in the control of cell fate has been proposed and mechanical conditioning of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) is of interest in directing MSC behavior for tissue engineering applications. This study investigates strain-induced differentiation and proliferation of MSCs, and investigates t...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Kearney EM,Farrell E,Prendergast PJ,Campbell VA

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00