A device for imposing cyclic strain to cells growing on implant alloys.

abstract：:Radiation applied for therapy and diagnostics damages molecular/atomic couples of biotissues, bones being among them. As a result, electron peculiarities and mechanical behavior of the latter are altered. Correlation between strength of the irradiated bone and its electron features explored due to photo- and exoelectr...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Dekhtyar Y

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral blood flow (CBF) response to changes in perfusion pressure mediated through decreases in arterial pressure, increases in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure and increases in jugular venous pressure was studied in anesthetized dogs. A preparation was developed in which each of the three relevant pressures c...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Wagner EM,Traystman RJ

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper outlines a comprehensive parametric approach for quantifying mechanical properties of spatially heterogeneous thin biological specimens such as human breast tissue using contact-mode Atomic Force Microscopy. Using inverse finite element (FE) analysis of spherical nanoindentation, the force response from hyp...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Roy R,Desai JP

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High density particle image velocimetry, with spatial resolution of O(1 mm), was used to measure the effect of occluder rebound on the flow field near a Bjork-Shiley Monostrut tilting-disk mitral valve. The ability to measure two velocity components over an entire plane simultaneously provides a very different insight...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Kini V,Bachmann C,Fontaine A,Deutsch S,Tarbell JM

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this paper is to review the theoretical basis and clinical application of electrical impedance plethysmography in the noninvasive evaluation of peripheral arterial and venous disease. Theoretical, experimental and clinical studies have not demonstrated a direct relationship between electrical impedanc...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Zuech PE,Cobbold RS,Johnston KW,Kassam M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diluted serum provides a model of interstitial fluid that can be used to study the response of smooth muscle cells (SMCs) to interstitial flow. The effect of serum and some of its components on SMC contraction (area reduction) and intracellular calcium ([Ca2+]i) response were characterized in rat aortic SMC in vitro. ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Ainslie K,Shi ZD,Garanich JS,Tarbell JM

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compare the influence of time-frequency methods on analysis of time-varying renal autoregulation properties. Particularly, we examine if detection probabilities are similar for amplitude and frequency modulation for a modulated simulation signal among five time-frequency approaches, and if time-varying changes in s...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Scully CG,Siu KL,Cupples WA,Braam B,Chon KH

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2) is a potent angiogenic growth factor involved in the development of diseases such as cancer, atherosclerosis, and heart and limb ischemia, as well as normal wound healing and tissue development. Despite being one of the most heavily studied angiogenic growth factors, the binding ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Filion RJ,Popel AS

更新日期：2004-05-01 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 Veterans Health Administration determined that over 250,000 U.S. service members were diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) between 2008 and 2018, of which a great proportion were due to blast exposure. Although the penetrating (secondary) and inertia-driven (tertiary) phases of blast-induced TBI (bTBI) ha...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Vogel EW 3rd,Panzer MB,Morales FN,Varghese N,Bass CR,Meaney DF,Morrison B 3rd

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinicians generally assume that Medical Compression Stockings (MCS) work by reducing vein luminal diameter and, in this way, help to prevent blood pooling. Conflicting results have been reported however in the case of lower leg deep veins which call into question this hypothesis. The purpose of this contribution is t...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Rohan PY,Badel P,Lun B,Rastel D,Avril S

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of tissue hydration and fixed charge density on hydraulic permeability and creep behavior of cartilaginous tissues have been investigated using the triphasic theory and finite element methods. The empirical model for hydraulic permeability of uncharged gels and Mackie and Meares (1955) model for ion diffus...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Gu WY,Yao H

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intramuscular pressure (IMP) shows promise for estimating individual muscle tension in vivo. However, previous pressure measurements show high variability during isometric contraction and poor correlation with tension during dynamic contraction. We hypothesized that enhanced sensor anchoring/orientation would improve ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： O'Connor SM,Kaufman KR,Ward SR,Lieber RL

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current induced in cultured cerebellar granule cells by the bath application of kainate (500 microM) was measured using the conventional patch-clamp technique. Two different kinds of responses were observed after the agonist perfusion. Some cells exhibited small inward whole-cell currents: 116 +/- 40 pA (7 cells) at a...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Cavalcanti S,Zona C

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We seek to construct physical and mathematical models of life. Such models allow us to test our understanding of how living systems function and how they respond to human imposed stimuli. One system is a genomically and chemically complete model of a minimal cell. This cell is a hypothetical bacterium with the fewest ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Shuler ML

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is known that long cortical bone structurally alter their area moment of inertia with age related bone loss maintaining their bending strength, the incidence of fragility fractures associated with cortical thinning still prevails. We hypothesize that cortical thinning with aging increases the local bucklin...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Lee T,Choi JB,Schafer BW,Segars WP,Eckstein F,Kuhn V,Beck TJ

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defibrillation efficacy testing is a common procedure at defibrillator implantation, with the objective to ensure that each patient receives a system with adequate shock efficacy. In this study, defibrillation shock efficacy as a function of shock energy was modeled by a dose response relationship. The frequency distr...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Smits K,Virag N

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linear autoregressive (AR) model-based heart rate (HR) spectral analysis has been widely used to study HR dynamics. Owing to system and measurement noise, the parameters of an AR model have intrinsic statistical uncertainty. In this study, we evaluate how this AR parameter uncertainty can translate to uncertainty in H...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Christini DJ,Kulkarni A,Rao S,Stutman ER,Bennett FM,Hausdorff JM,Oriol N,Lutchen KR

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are recent reports of hybrid tissue-fabric materials with good performance-high biocompatibility and high mechanical strength. In this study, we demonstrate the capability of a hybrid material as a long-term filter for blood proteins. Polyester fabrics were implanted into rats to fabricate hybrid tissue-fabric m...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Inoue Y,Yokota T,Sekitani T,Kaneko A,Woo T,Kobayashi S,Shibuya T,Tanaka M,Kosukegawa H,Saito I,Isoyama T,Abe Y,Yambe T,Someya T,Sekino M

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：:Hemodynamic forces are known to be able to induce an inflammatory phenotype in endothelial cells (ECs). The EC glycocalyx (GCX) is a dynamic structure which is regulated in response to different stimuli and hypothesized as an important contributor to the mechanotransduction of wall shear stresses (WSS). In this work, ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Cooper S,McDonald K,Burkat D,Leask RL

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of angiogenesis is a promising therapeutic strategy for the amelioration of peripheral arterial disease (PAD). This occlusive disease results in muscle ischemia, and neovascularization is a route to increasing the perfusion in the tissue. The vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) family of potent pro...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Mac Gabhann F,Ji JW,Popel AS

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：:The compression of blood vessels by surrounding tissue is an important problem in hemodynamics, most prominently in studies relating to the heart. In this study we consider a long tube of elliptic cross section as an idealization of the geometry of a compressed blood vessel. An exact solution of the governing equation...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Haslam M,Zamir M

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the interaction of high frequency jet ventilation with cardiovascular pressures and flows. Results in dogs show that the amplitude of all intrathoracic pressures and flows fluctuate with a frequency equal to the difference between the heart rate and ventilator rate. The magnitude of this amplitude vari...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Mitzner W,Gioia F,Weinmann GG,Robotham JL,Ehrlich W

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to investigate the possible origin of some cutaneously recorded higher frequency electrogastrographic signals. Computer modeling of gastric electrical uncoupling was performed using previously described conoidal dipole model. Cutaneous electrogastrograms were simulated after uncoupling was in...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Mintchev MP,Bowes KL

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the effects of smooth muscle contraction and relaxation on the strain and stress distribution in the vascular wall, a mathematical model was proposed. The artery was assumed to be a thick-walled orthotropic tube made of nonlinear, incompressible elastic material. Considering that the contraction of smooth mus...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Rachev A,Hayashi K

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poor vascular homeostasis drives many clinical disorders including diabetes, arthritis, atherosclerosis, and peripheral artery disease. Local tissue ischemia resultant of insufficient blood flow is a potent stimulus for recruitment of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs). This mobilization and homing is a multi-step pr...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Williams PA,Silva EA

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibration under shear flow causes the reduction of flow resistance for shear-thinning fluids. The present study investigates the effect of vibration on the flow resistance of a nonaggregating red blood cell (RBC) suspension with a newly designed pressure-scanning capillary viscometer (PSCV). The PSCV was originally de...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Shin S,Ku Y,Suh JS,Moon SY,Jang JY

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a mathematical model for analyses of the elastic properties of the wall of the outer hair cell (OHC) in the inner ear. The model reflects the properties of the major components of the OHC wall: the subsurface cisternae, the cortical lattice, the plasma membrane, and the radial pillars. The wall is treated a...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Spector AA,Brownell WE,Popel AS

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00