An ex vivo study of the biological properties of porcine aortic valves in response to circumferential cyclic stretch

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1655-1665

  Balachandran, Kartik ^a   Konduri, Suchitra ^b   Sucosky, Philippe ^a   Jo, Hanjoong ^a,c   Yoganathan, Ajit P ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic valve leaflets; Circumferential stretch; Contractile phenotype; Uniaxial stretch bioreactor

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTORS; CELLS; FORCE MEASUREMENT; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; STRAIN RATE; TISSUE;

AORTIC VALVE LEAFLETS (AVL); CIRCUMFERENTIAL STRETCHES; CONTRACTILE PHENOTYPES; UNIAXIAL STRETCH BIOREACTORS;

VALVES (MECHANICAL);

SCLEROPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; ELASTICITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; METHODOLOGY; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHEAR STRENGTH; STIMULATION; SWINE;

ANIMALS; AORTIC VALVE; ELASTICITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; PERIODICITY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SWINE;

EID: 33750736339     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-006-9167-8     Document Type: Article

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