Quantification of the temporal evolution of collagen orientation in mechanically conditioned engineered cardiovascular tissues

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1263-1272

  Rubbens, Mirjam P ^a   Driessen Mol, Anita ^a   Boerboom, Ralf A ^a   Koppert, Marc M J ^a   Van Assen, Hans C ^a   Terhaar Romeny, Bart M ^a   Baaijens, Frank P T ^a   Bouten, Carlijn V C ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collagen orientation; Mechanical straining; Multiphoton microscopy; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR TISSUE ENGINEERING; CARDIOVASCULAR TISSUES; COLLAGEN FIBER; COLLAGEN FIBER ORIENTATION; CULTURE TIME; ENGINEERED TISSUES; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; LOAD-BEARING; LOAD-BEARING TISSUES; LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MECHANICAL LOADING; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANICAL STRAINING; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NON-LINEAR; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; SOFT TISSUE; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TISSUE GROWTH; TISSUE LAYERS; VISCO-ELASTIC;

ALIGNMENT; ANISOTROPY; BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANES; COLLAGEN; FIBERS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BIOMECHANICS;

COLLAGEN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BIOARTIFICIAL ORGAN; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIOARTIFICIAL ORGANS; COLLAGEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 67650520305     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-009-9698-x     Document Type: Article

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