Pub Date : 2001-11-11DOI: 10.1115/imece2001/bed-23121
G. Gaudette, J. Todaro, E. Azeloglu, I. Krukenkamp, F. Chiang
The determination of regional function in the beating heart necessitates a technique to measure local deformation with high spatial resolution. We have previously reported the ability of computer aided speckle interferometry (CASI) to accurately determine deformation in the non-beating heart. Herein we use this technique to ascertain regional deformation allowing for the determination of regional area-left ventricular pressure loops, also known as regional stroke work. An isolated rabbit heart was placed in a modified Langendorff apparatus that allowed the left ventricle to develop pressure and eject volume into the aorta. CASI was used to determine the simultaneous deformation of over 900 points located in a region approximately 4 × 6 mm on the anterior surface of the left ventricle. The heart was then subjected to regional ischemia and data were again acquired. Over the whole region, the average regional stroke work decreased at both 2 and 5 minutes of regional ischemia, which partially recovered upon reperfusion. In addition, this region was subdivided into 24 areas, and regional stroke work was determined in each area and similar results to that obtained over the whole region were found.
{"title":"Determination of Regional Stroke Work With High Spatial Resolution in the Isolated Beating Rabbit Heart","authors":"G. Gaudette, J. Todaro, E. Azeloglu, I. Krukenkamp, F. Chiang","doi":"10.1115/imece2001/bed-23121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2001/bed-23121","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The determination of regional function in the beating heart necessitates a technique to measure local deformation with high spatial resolution. We have previously reported the ability of computer aided speckle interferometry (CASI) to accurately determine deformation in the non-beating heart. Herein we use this technique to ascertain regional deformation allowing for the determination of regional area-left ventricular pressure loops, also known as regional stroke work. An isolated rabbit heart was placed in a modified Langendorff apparatus that allowed the left ventricle to develop pressure and eject volume into the aorta. CASI was used to determine the simultaneous deformation of over 900 points located in a region approximately 4 × 6 mm on the anterior surface of the left ventricle. The heart was then subjected to regional ischemia and data were again acquired. Over the whole region, the average regional stroke work decreased at both 2 and 5 minutes of regional ischemia, which partially recovered upon reperfusion. In addition, this region was subdivided into 24 areas, and regional stroke work was determined in each area and similar results to that obtained over the whole region were found.","PeriodicalId":7238,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Bioengineering","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87839830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2001-11-11DOI: 10.1115/imece2001/bed-23026
T. L. Moore, L. Gibson
Microdamage, in the form of small cracks, exists in healthy bone. Microdamage can be created by an overload or by repetitive motion (fatigue) during daily activities. Usually, microdamage is repaired during bone remodeling and a steady state is maintained. However, in cases of excessive microdamage creation or slowed bone remodeling, microdamage can coalesce to create a fracture. Our previous work [1,2] has investigated microdamage accumulation with increasing strain in bovine trabecular bone loaded in monotonic compression and compressive fatigue. Specimens fatigued at relatively high load levels fail after a few loading cycles, while specimens fatigued at lower load levels may undergo thousands of cycles before failure. During high cycle fatigue, microdamage may accumulate by the growth of pre-existing microcracks, as well as by the crack initiation seen in low cycle fatigue.
{"title":"The Effect of Number of Cycles on Microdamage Accumulation in Bovine Trabecular Bone","authors":"T. L. Moore, L. Gibson","doi":"10.1115/imece2001/bed-23026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2001/bed-23026","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Microdamage, in the form of small cracks, exists in healthy bone. Microdamage can be created by an overload or by repetitive motion (fatigue) during daily activities. Usually, microdamage is repaired during bone remodeling and a steady state is maintained. However, in cases of excessive microdamage creation or slowed bone remodeling, microdamage can coalesce to create a fracture. Our previous work [1,2] has investigated microdamage accumulation with increasing strain in bovine trabecular bone loaded in monotonic compression and compressive fatigue. Specimens fatigued at relatively high load levels fail after a few loading cycles, while specimens fatigued at lower load levels may undergo thousands of cycles before failure. During high cycle fatigue, microdamage may accumulate by the growth of pre-existing microcracks, as well as by the crack initiation seen in low cycle fatigue.","PeriodicalId":7238,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Bioengineering","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86653173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2001-11-11DOI: 10.1115/imece2001/bed-23042
A. Patwardhan, J. Simonds, A. Ghanayem, L. Voronov, Arif Ali, S. Hodges, O. Paxinos, R. Havey, F. Phillips, T. Gavin, K. Meade
Spondylolisthesis is defined as a slippage of a vertebral body on the one below. Isthmic spondylolisthesis, caused by stress fracture or a developmental anomaly at the pars interarticularis, is the most common type of lumbar spondylolisthesis with a 6% incidence in adults. Isthmic lumbar spondylolisthesis is a frequent cause of disabling low-back and leg pain. The goal of this study is to improve the quality of treatment of these patients.
{"title":"An Experimental Model of Adult-Onset Slip Progression in Isthmic Spondylolisthesis","authors":"A. Patwardhan, J. Simonds, A. Ghanayem, L. Voronov, Arif Ali, S. Hodges, O. Paxinos, R. Havey, F. Phillips, T. Gavin, K. Meade","doi":"10.1115/imece2001/bed-23042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2001/bed-23042","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Spondylolisthesis is defined as a slippage of a vertebral body on the one below. Isthmic spondylolisthesis, caused by stress fracture or a developmental anomaly at the pars interarticularis, is the most common type of lumbar spondylolisthesis with a 6% incidence in adults. Isthmic lumbar spondylolisthesis is a frequent cause of disabling low-back and leg pain. The goal of this study is to improve the quality of treatment of these patients.","PeriodicalId":7238,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Bioengineering","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89136511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2001-11-11DOI: 10.1115/imece2001/bed-23013
E. Finol, C. Amon
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAAs) are balloon-shaped expansions commonly found in the infrarenal segment of the abdominal aorta, between the renal arteries and the iliac bifurcation. The mean age of patients with AAA is 67 years and males are affected more often than women in a ratio of 4:1. Abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture is the 13th leading cause of death in the United States, affecting 1 in 250 individuals greater than 50 years of age. AAAs usually remain asymptomatic while slowly enlarging over a period of years or even decades. Factors that are known to affect the risk of aneurysm rupture are: maximum transverse dimension of the aneurysm, its expansion rate, its relative size compared to the patient’s body size, smoking, and family history of the patient. The five-year survival rate is only 19% and the overall mortality rate following rupture may exceed 90% [1]. Therefore, aneurysm screening and determination of the factors that may have an important role in aneurysm growth and rupture have become important elements in the investigation of this clinical problem.
{"title":"Secondary Flow and Wall Shear Stress in Three-Dimensional Steady Flow AAA Hemodynamics","authors":"E. Finol, C. Amon","doi":"10.1115/imece2001/bed-23013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2001/bed-23013","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAAs) are balloon-shaped expansions commonly found in the infrarenal segment of the abdominal aorta, between the renal arteries and the iliac bifurcation. The mean age of patients with AAA is 67 years and males are affected more often than women in a ratio of 4:1. Abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture is the 13th leading cause of death in the United States, affecting 1 in 250 individuals greater than 50 years of age. AAAs usually remain asymptomatic while slowly enlarging over a period of years or even decades. Factors that are known to affect the risk of aneurysm rupture are: maximum transverse dimension of the aneurysm, its expansion rate, its relative size compared to the patient’s body size, smoking, and family history of the patient. The five-year survival rate is only 19% and the overall mortality rate following rupture may exceed 90% [1]. Therefore, aneurysm screening and determination of the factors that may have an important role in aneurysm growth and rupture have become important elements in the investigation of this clinical problem.","PeriodicalId":7238,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Bioengineering","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78890060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2001-11-11DOI: 10.1115/imece2001/bed-23155
K. Barbee, Amit Bhavnani
Over 350,000 percutaneous translumenal coronary angioplasty (balloon angioplasty) procedures are performed each year. This procedure offers a less invasive alternative to coronary by-pass surgery for patients whose coronary vessels have become occluded due to the process of atherosclerosis. Its potential has not been fully realized due to the high rate of restenosis — the rapid reocclusion of the vessel due to the pathological growth of the vascular smooth muscle (VSM) in response to the trauma of the balloon inflation. Despite the recognition of smooth muscle injury as an initiating event in the process of restenosis, there has been no systematic study to determine the mechanical loading conditions required to produce VSM injury and elicit the restenosis response. In this study, a cell culture model was developed to define the loading conditions required to produce VSM injury. The model system allows precise control of the applied strain and strain rate and quantification of the injury severity in terms of membrane damage. The determination of the threshold criteria for cell injury will allow the angioplasty procedure to be modified, and possibly automated, to minimize VSM injury and avoid the restenosis response.
{"title":"Strain and Strain Rate Dependence of Vascular Smooth Muscle Injury","authors":"K. Barbee, Amit Bhavnani","doi":"10.1115/imece2001/bed-23155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2001/bed-23155","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Over 350,000 percutaneous translumenal coronary angioplasty (balloon angioplasty) procedures are performed each year. This procedure offers a less invasive alternative to coronary by-pass surgery for patients whose coronary vessels have become occluded due to the process of atherosclerosis. Its potential has not been fully realized due to the high rate of restenosis — the rapid reocclusion of the vessel due to the pathological growth of the vascular smooth muscle (VSM) in response to the trauma of the balloon inflation. Despite the recognition of smooth muscle injury as an initiating event in the process of restenosis, there has been no systematic study to determine the mechanical loading conditions required to produce VSM injury and elicit the restenosis response. In this study, a cell culture model was developed to define the loading conditions required to produce VSM injury. The model system allows precise control of the applied strain and strain rate and quantification of the injury severity in terms of membrane damage. The determination of the threshold criteria for cell injury will allow the angioplasty procedure to be modified, and possibly automated, to minimize VSM injury and avoid the restenosis response.","PeriodicalId":7238,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Bioengineering","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86118239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2001-11-11DOI: 10.1115/imece2001/bed-23016
N. Genes, Matthew D. Silva, C. Sotak, L. Bonassar
Alginate in solution is crosslinked in the presence of multivalent cations, making it a useful polymer for drug delivery and tissue engineering. The degree of crosslinking depends on the concentration (Rowley 2000) and chemical identity of the crosslinker (Seely 1974).
{"title":"Cell Adhesion to RGD-Alginate Is Modulated by Substrate Mechanics","authors":"N. Genes, Matthew D. Silva, C. Sotak, L. Bonassar","doi":"10.1115/imece2001/bed-23016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2001/bed-23016","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Alginate in solution is crosslinked in the presence of multivalent cations, making it a useful polymer for drug delivery and tissue engineering. The degree of crosslinking depends on the concentration (Rowley 2000) and chemical identity of the crosslinker (Seely 1974).","PeriodicalId":7238,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Bioengineering","volume":"105 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91485557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2001-11-11DOI: 10.1115/imece2001/bed-23111
S. Lieber
The number of heart valve replacements is increasing in the United States and worldwide due to aging of the population. This situation requires bioprosthetic heart valves with higher durability to reduce the rate of reoperation and the need for anticoagulation. However, introducing any improvement in the design of a heart valve requires ten years of validation in a clinical setup. A validated in-vitro fatigue testing system would significantly accelerate these innovations. The main objective of the proposed research is to: • Determine the dynamics of flow patterns and stresses in the vicinity of a bioprosthetic heart valve under pulsatile flow conditions. • Use the flow pattern information to validate an in-vitro fatigue testing system under physiological and accelerated conditions.
{"title":"Validation of Bench Durability of Bioprosthetic Heart Valves","authors":"S. Lieber","doi":"10.1115/imece2001/bed-23111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2001/bed-23111","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The number of heart valve replacements is increasing in the United States and worldwide due to aging of the population. This situation requires bioprosthetic heart valves with higher durability to reduce the rate of reoperation and the need for anticoagulation. However, introducing any improvement in the design of a heart valve requires ten years of validation in a clinical setup. A validated in-vitro fatigue testing system would significantly accelerate these innovations. The main objective of the proposed research is to:\u0000 • Determine the dynamics of flow patterns and stresses in the vicinity of a bioprosthetic heart valve under pulsatile flow conditions.\u0000 • Use the flow pattern information to validate an in-vitro fatigue testing system under physiological and accelerated conditions.","PeriodicalId":7238,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Bioengineering","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73686138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2001-11-11DOI: 10.1115/imece2001/bed-23152
S. Pal, R. David
Cellular therapies promise to become major therapeutic modalities of this new century. The hematopoietic restoration with umbilical cord blood transplant can be a useful source of hematopoietic stem cells for routine bone marrow reconstitution. Thus it can be used as an effective source of stem cells for the treatment of various hematological disorders like leukemia, thalessaemia, aplastic anemia and it also can be used to replace the damaged tissue in various pathological conditions like Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, osteoarthritis etc. The advantage of the umbilical cord blood transplant being, use of unrelated umbilical cord blood transplantation with upto 2 to 3 HLA mismatch (Wagner et al, 1996).
细胞疗法有望成为新世纪的主要治疗方式。脐带血移植造血修复可作为常规骨髓重建的有效造血干细胞来源。因此，它可以作为干细胞的有效来源，用于治疗各种血液系统疾病，如白血病、地中海贫血、再生障碍性贫血，也可以用于替代各种病理条件下的受损组织，如帕金森病、阿尔茨海默病、骨关节炎等。脐带血移植的优点是，使用不相关的脐带血移植，最多有2到3个HLA不匹配(Wagner et al, 1996)。
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Pub Date : 2001-11-11DOI: 10.1115/imece2001/bed-23145
Sansan S. Lo, R. Mauck, Sara L. Seyhan, G. Palmer, V. Mow, C. Hung
A successful tissue engineered articular cartilage construct needs to possess mechanical, biochemical, and histological features similar to that of native cartilage in order to serve its load-bearing function. Agarose is a suitable scaffold material for chondrocyte cultures (1,2), allowing long-term maintenance of cell phenotype and the elaboration of a functional cartilage-like matrix. This culture system facilitates further elucidation of the roles of matrix and cell-matrix interactions in the regulation of chondrocyte response to mechanical loads. We have previously shown (3) that mechanical loading at a physiologic frequency can increase the rate of matrix deposition, increasing mechanical properties of the tissue engineered constructs (∼21 fold increases in HA over day 0 with loading vs. ∼4 fold increases for free swelling controls). We have also shown that dynamic loading of transiently transfected chondrocytes in agarose hydrogels for 1 hour at 10% strain increased aggrecan promoter activity by ∼1.5 fold (4). In this study we sought to further characterize the short term response of chondrocytes to static load (by measuring aggrecan promoter activity) and the effects of dynamic compression on aggrecan gene expression over a longer (3 day) culture period (by monitoring mRNA levels). Monitoring matrix gene expression during early times of culture, when there is little matrix accumulation and the cells deform directly with the matrix (5), may provide insights into cellular responses to strain and allow for the optimization of cartilage bioreactor conditions.
{"title":"Mechanical Loading Modulates Gene Expression in Chondrocyte-Seeded Agarose Hydrogels","authors":"Sansan S. Lo, R. Mauck, Sara L. Seyhan, G. Palmer, V. Mow, C. Hung","doi":"10.1115/imece2001/bed-23145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2001/bed-23145","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 A successful tissue engineered articular cartilage construct needs to possess mechanical, biochemical, and histological features similar to that of native cartilage in order to serve its load-bearing function. Agarose is a suitable scaffold material for chondrocyte cultures (1,2), allowing long-term maintenance of cell phenotype and the elaboration of a functional cartilage-like matrix. This culture system facilitates further elucidation of the roles of matrix and cell-matrix interactions in the regulation of chondrocyte response to mechanical loads. We have previously shown (3) that mechanical loading at a physiologic frequency can increase the rate of matrix deposition, increasing mechanical properties of the tissue engineered constructs (∼21 fold increases in HA over day 0 with loading vs. ∼4 fold increases for free swelling controls). We have also shown that dynamic loading of transiently transfected chondrocytes in agarose hydrogels for 1 hour at 10% strain increased aggrecan promoter activity by ∼1.5 fold (4). In this study we sought to further characterize the short term response of chondrocytes to static load (by measuring aggrecan promoter activity) and the effects of dynamic compression on aggrecan gene expression over a longer (3 day) culture period (by monitoring mRNA levels). Monitoring matrix gene expression during early times of culture, when there is little matrix accumulation and the cells deform directly with the matrix (5), may provide insights into cellular responses to strain and allow for the optimization of cartilage bioreactor conditions.","PeriodicalId":7238,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Bioengineering","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81162697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2001-11-11DOI: 10.1115/imece2001/bed-23022
D. Vashishth, Winson T. George, Jennifer Smith, J. Brunski, L. Ostrander
In contrast to the traditional classroom environment that promotes passive learning, the multimedia-based studio approach is considered to be a more effective tool for delivering course content as it increases active in-class involvement, teamwork experience and cooperative learning (Wilson 1994). More significantly, the studio environment provides a plethora of opportunities to include case studies that promote hands-on experience and problem-solving, illustrate real-life problems and increase student interest in the course content (Starrett and Morcos 2001). In general, engineering courses benefit from the availability of simulation and analysis software in a multimedia studio environment. Biomedical engineering courses including biomechanics, however, are not always amenable to simulation and often require the setting of complicated and expensive tests involving human subjects and hazardous materials. Furthermore, unlike traditional medical courses, biomedical engineering departments do not have extensive teaching laboratories and students have little or no clinical exposure.
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