Biomechanical and histological characteristics of passive esophagus: Experimental investigation and comparative constitutive modeling

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 2654-2663

  Stavropoulou, Eleni A ^a,b   Dafalias, Yannis F ^b,c   Sokolis, Dimitrios P ^a  

^a Foundation of Biomedical Research   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Histology; Inflation extension; Mucosa submucosa; Muscle; Strain energy function

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS; BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; BIPHASIC; COLLAGEN CONTENT; CONSTITUTIVE MODELING; DEVICE APPLICATION; ESOPHAGEAL TISSUES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; EXPONENTIAL FORM; FORCE DATA; GEOMETRICAL ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS; INFLATION/EXTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STRETCH; MATERIAL PARAMETER; MUSCLE LAYERS; MUSCLE STRAIN; OPTIMAL DESIGN; PARAMETERIZED; PSEUDOELASTIC RESPONSE; SOFT TISSUE; STRAIN ENERGY FUNCTIONS; ZERO-STRESS STATE;

ANISOTROPY; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; BIOMECHANICS; COLLAGEN; GLYCOPROTEINS; HISTOLOGY; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; STRAIN ENERGY;

MUSCLE;

COLLAGEN; ELASTIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTICITY; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RIGIDITY;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; ESOPHAGUS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RABBITS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 71549117282     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.08.018     Document Type: Article

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