Nondestructive and noninvasive assessment of mechanical properties in heart valve tissue engineering

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 797-806

  Kortsmit, Jeroen ^a   Driessen, Niels J B ^a   Rutten, Marcel C M ^a   Baaijens, Frank P T ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; POLYMER BLENDS; TENSILE TESTING; TISSUE; TISSUE CULTURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

AORTIC VALVES; APPLIED PRESSURE; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CYCLIC STRAINING; HEART VALVES; INDENTATION TEST; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; MECHANICAL CONDITIONING; MONITOR AND CONTROL; NON DESTRUCTIVE; NON-INVASIVE ASSESSMENTS; NONDESTRUCTIVE ASSESSMENT; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; OPTIMAL LOADING; QUALITY CHECKS; RECENT PROGRESS; TISSUE CONSTRUCTS; TISSUE DEVELOPMENT; TISSUE FORMATION; TISSUE-ENGINEERED HEART; UNIAXIAL TENSILE TEST; VOLUMETRIC DEFORMATION;

VALVES (MECHANICAL);

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART VALVE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; TENSILE STRENGTH; THICKNESS; TISSUE CULTURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; YOUNG MODULUS; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOREACTORS; CELLS, CULTURED; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 67049137936     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2008.0197     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Sodian, R., Hoerstrup, S.P., Sperling, J.S., Daebritz, S., Martin, D.P., Moran, A.M., Kim, B.S., Schoen, F.J., Vacanti, J.P., and Mayer, J.E., Jr. Early in vivo experience with tissueengineered trileaflet heart valves. Circulation 102, III22, 2000.
2. Hoerstrup, S.P., Sodian, R., Daebritz, S., Wang, J., Bacha, E.A., Martin, D.P., Moran, A.M., Guleserian, K.J., Sperling, J.S., Kaushal, S., Vacanti, J.P., Schoen, F.J., and Mayer, J.E., Jr. Functional living trileaflet heart valves grown in vitro. Circulation 102, III44, 2000.
3. Mol, A., Rutten, M.C.M., Driessen, N.J.B., Bouten, C.V.C., Zund, G., Baaijens, F.P.T., and Hoerstrup, S.P. Autologous human tissue-engineered heart valves: prospects for systemic application. Circulation 114, 152, 2006.
4. Engelmayr, G.C., Jr., Rabkin, E., Sutherland, F.W., Schoen, F.J., Mayer, J.E., Jr., and Sacks, M.S. The independent role of cyclic flexure in the early in vitro development of an engineered heart valve tissue. Biomaterials 26, 175, 2005.
5. Isenberg, B.C., and Tranquillo, R.T. Long-term cyclic distension enhances the mechanical properties of collagenbased media equivalents. Ann Biomed Eng 31, 937, 2003.
6. Kim, B.S., Nikolovski, J., Bonadio, J., and Mooney, D.J. Cyclic mechanical strain regulates the development of engineered smooth muscle tissue. Nat Biotechnol 17, 979, 1999.
7. Mol, A., Bouten, C.V.C., Zund, G., Guenter, C., Visjager, J.F., Turina, M.I., Baaijens, F.P.T., and Hoerstrup, S.P. The relevance of large strains in functional tissue-engineering of heart valves. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 51, 78, 2003.
8. Seliktar, D., Black, R.A., Vito, R.P., and Nerem, R.M. Dynamic mechanical conditioning of collagen-gel blood vessel constructs induces remodeling in vitro. Ann Biomed Eng 28, 351, 2000.
9. Niklason, L.E., Gao, J., Abbott, W.M., Hirschi, K.K., Houser, S., Marini, R., and Langer, R. Functional arteries grown in vitro. Science 284, 489, 1999.
10. Niklason, L.E., Abbott, W., Gao, J., Klagges, B., Hirschi, K.K., Ulubayram, K., Conroy, N., Jones, R., Vasanawala, A., Sanzgiri, S., and Langer, R. Morphologic and mechanical characteristics of engineered bovine arteries. J Vasc Surg 33, 628, 2001.
11. Seliktar, D., Nerem, R.M., and Galis, Z.S. Mechanical strainstimulated remodeling of tissue-engineered blood vessel constructs. Tissue Eng 9, 657, 2003.
12. Mitchell, S.B., Sanders, J.E., Garbini, J.L., and Schuessler, P.K. A device to apply user-specified strains to biomaterials in culture. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 48, 268, 2001.
13. Conklin, B.S., Surowiec, S.M., Lin, P.H., and Chen, C. A simple physiologic pulsatile perfusion system for the study of intact vascular tissue. Med Eng Phys 22, 441, 2000.
14. Thompson, C.A., Colon-Hernandez, P., Pomerantseva, I., McNeil,B.D.,Nasseri,B.,Vacanti, J.P.,andOesterle,S.N.Anovel pulsatile, laminarflowbioreactor for the developmentof tissueengineeredvascularstructures. TissueEng8,1083,2002.
15. Williams, C., and Wick, T.M. Perfusion bioreactor for small diameter tissue-engineered arteries. Tissue Eng 10, 930, 2004.
16. Jockenhoevel, S., Zund, G., Hoerstrup, S.P., Schnell, A., and Turina, M. Cardiovascular tissue-engineering: a new laminar flow chamber for in vitro improvement of mechanical tissue properties. ASAIO J 48, 8, 2002.
17. Dumont, K., Yperman, J., Verbeken, E., Segers, P., Meuris, B., Vandenberghe, S., Flameng, W., and Verdonck, P.R. Design of a new pulsatile bioreactor for tissue-engineered aortic heart valve formation. Artif Organs 26, 710, 2002.
18. Hildebrand, D.K., Wu, Z.J., Mayer, J.E., Jr., and Sacks M.S. Design and hydrodynamic evaluation of a novel pulsatile bioreactor for biologically active heart valves. Ann Biomed Eng 32, 1039, 2004.
19. Hoerstrup, S.P., Sodian, R., Sperling, J.S., Vacanti, J.P., andMayer, J.E., Jr. New pulsatile bioreactor for in vitro formation of tissue-engineered heart valves. Tissue Eng 6, 75, 2000.
20. Rabkin, E., Hoerstrup, S.P., Aikawa, M., Mayer, J.E., Jr., and Schoen, F.J. Evolution of cell phenotype and extracellular matrix in tissue-engineered heart valves during in-vitro maturation and in-vivo remodeling. J Heart Valve Dis 11, 308, 2002.
21. Rutten, M.C.M., Wijlaars, M.W., Strijkers, G.J., Peters, G.W.M., Bouten, C.V.C., and Baaijens, F.P.T. The valve exerciser: a mechanics-based bioreactor for physiological loading of tissue-engineered aortic valves. Abstract presented at the 13th Conference of the European Society of Biomechanics, Wroclaw, Poland, 2002.
22. Schenke-Layland, K., Opitz, F., Gross, M., Doring, C., Halbhuber, K.J., Schirrmeister, F., Wahlers, Th., and Stock, U.A. Complete dynamic repopulation of decellularized heart valves by application of defined physical signals-an in vitrostudy. Cardiovasc Res 60, 497, 2003.
23. Zeltinger, J., Landeen, L.K., Alexander, H.G., Kidd, I.D., and Sibanda, B. Development and characterization of tissueengineered aortic valves. Tissue Eng 7, 9, 2001.
24. Narita, Y., Hata, K.I., Kagami, H., Usui, A., Ueda, M., and Ueda, Y. Novel pulse duplicating bioreactor system for tissueengineered vascular construct. Tissue Eng 10, 1224, 2004.
25. Flanagan, T.C., Cornelissen, C., Koch, S., Tschoeke, B., Sachwech, S., Schmitz-Rode, T., and Jockenhoevel, S. The in vitro development of autologous fibrin-based tissueengineered heart valves through optimised dynamic conditioning. Biomaterials 28, 3388, 2007.
26. Mol, A., Driessen, N.J.B., Rutten, M.C.M., Hoerstrup, S.P., Bouten, C.V.C., and Baaijens, F.P.T. Tissue-engineering of human heart valve leaflets: a novel bioreactor for a strainbased conditioning approach. Ann Biomed Eng 33, 1, 2005.
27. Kortsmit, J., Driessen, N.J.B., Rutten, M.C.M., and Baaijens, F.P.T. Real time, non-invasive assessment of leaflet deformation in heart valve tissue-engineering. Ann Biomed Eng accepted, 2008.
28. Clark, R.E. Stress-strain characteristics of fresh and frozen human aortic and mitral leaflets and chordae tendinae. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 66, 202, 1973.
29. May-Newman, K., and Yin, F.C.P. Biaxial mechanical behavior of excised porcine mitral valve leaflets. Am J Physiol 269, 1319, 1995.
30. Billiar, K.L., and Sacks, M.S. Biaxial mechanical properties of the natural and glutaraldehyde treated aortic valve cusp- part I: experimental results. J Biomech Eng 122, 23, 2000.
31. Stella, J.A., Liao, J., and Sacks, M.S. Time-dependent biaxial mechanical behavior of the aortic heart valve leaflet. J Biomech 40, 169, 2007.
32. Stella, J.A., and Sacks, M.S. On the biaxial mechanical properties of the layers of the aortic valve leaflet. J Biomech Eng 129, 757, 2007.
33. Cox, M.A., Driessen, N.J.B., Bouten, C.V.C., and Baaijens, F.P.T. Mechanical characterization of anisotropic planar biological soft tissues using large indentation: a computational feasibility study. J Biomech Eng 128, 428, 2006.
34. Driessen, N.J.B., Mol, A., Bouten, C.V.C., and Baaijens, F.P.T. Modeling the mechanics of tissue-engineered human heart valve leaflets. Abstract presented at ICCB, Lisbon, Portugal, 2005.
35. Driessen, N.J.B., Mol, A., Bouten, C.V.C., and Baaijens, F.P.T. Modeling the mechanics of tissue-engineered human heart valve leaflets. J Biomech 40, 325, 2007.
36. Driessen, N.J.B., Bouten, C.V.C., and Baaijens, F.P.T. A structural constitutive model for collagenous cardiovascular tissues incorporating the angular fiber distribution. J Biomech Eng 127, 494, 2005.
37. Clark, R.E., and Finke, E.H. Scanning and light microscopy of human aortic leaflets in stressed and relaxed states. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 67, 792, 1974.
38. Sauren, A.A.H.J. The mechanical behaviour of the aortic valve [Ph.D. thesis]. Technische Hogeschool, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 1981.
39. Thubrikar, M. The Aortic Valve. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1990.
40. Schnell, A.M., Hoerstrup, S.P., Zund, G., Kolb, S., Sodian, R., Visjager, J.F., Grunenfelder, J., Suter, A., and Turina, M. Optimal cell source for cardiovascular tissue-engineering: venous vs. aortic human myofibroblasts. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 49, 221, 2001.
41. Mol, A., van Lieshout, M.I., Dam-de Veen, G.C., Neuenschwander, S., Hoerstrup, S.P., Baaijens, F.P.T., and Bouten, C.V.C. Fibrin as a cell carrier in cardiovascular tissueengineering applications. Biomaterials 26, 3113, 2005.
42. Schmidt, D., Achermann, J., Odermatt, B., Breymann, C., Mol, A., Genoni, M., Zund, G., and Hoerstrup, S.P. Prenatally fabricated autologous human living heart valves based on amniotic fluid derived progenitor cells as single cell source. Circulation 11, I64, 2007.
43. Stock, U.A., Degenkolbe, I., Attmann, T., Schenke-Layland, K., Freitag, S., and Lutter, G. Prevention of device-related tissue damageduring percutaneous deployment of tissue-engineered heart valves. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 131, 1323, 2006.
44. Stradins, P., Lacis, R., Ozolanta, I., Purina, B., Ose, V., Feldmane, L., and Kasyanov, V. Comparison of biomechanical and structural properties between human aortic and pulmonary valve. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 26, 634, 2004.
45. Balguid, A., Rubbens, M.P., Mol, A., Bank, R.A., Bogers, A.J., van Kats, J.P., de Mol, B.A., Baaijens, F.P., and Bouten, C.V. The role of collagen cross-links in biomechanical behavior of human aortic heart valve leaflets-relevance for tissueengineering. Tissue Eng 13, 1501, 2007.