Age-related changes in material behavior of porcine mitral and aortic valves and correlation to matrix composition

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 867-878

  Stephens, Elizabeth H ^a   De Jonge, Nicky ^b   McNeill, Meaghan P ^c   Durst, Christopher A ^a   Grande Allen, K Jane ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; RESIDUAL STRESSES; STIFFNESS; STRESS RELAXATION; TENSILE TESTING;

AGE-RELATED; AGE-RELATED CHANGES; AORTIC VALVES; DESIGN CRITERION; ELEVATED STRESS; FREE EDGE; HEART VALVES; MATERIAL BEHAVIOR; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MATRIX COMPOSITION; MITRAL VALVES; RADIAL STRIPS; SPECIFIC DESIGN; STANDARD MATERIALS; STRAIN CURVES; TISSUE COMPOSITION; TISSUE-ENGINEERED HEART; TRANSITION CURVATURE; TRANSITION REGIONS; UNIAXIAL TENSILE TESTING;

VALVES (MECHANICAL);

SUS;

COLLAGEN TYPE 3;

AGING; ANIMAL; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; MATERIALS TESTING; METABOLISM; MITRAL VALVE; PHYSIOLOGY; SWINE; TENSILE STRENGTH;

AGING; ANIMALS; AORTIC VALVE; BIOMECHANICS; COLLAGEN TYPE III; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; MATERIALS TESTING; MITRAL VALVE; SUS SCROFA; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 77649260964     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2009.0288     Document Type: Article

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