Endothelial cell morphologic response to asymmetric stenosis hemodynamics: Effects of spatial wall shear stress gradients

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Volumn 132, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Rouleau, Leonie ^a,b   Farcas, Monica ^a   Tardif, Jean Claude ^b   Mongrain, Rosaire ^a,b   Leask, Richard L ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION AND DECELERATION; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CORONARY STENOSIS; ENDOTHELIAL CELL RESPONSE; FLOW DIRECTION; FLOW RECIRCULATION; FUNCTION OF TIME; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; HEMODYNAMIC FORCES; IN-CELL; IN-VITRO; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; ONEDIMENSIONAL FLOW; SPATIAL GRADIENTS; STATIC CONTROL; VASCULATURE; WALL SHEAR STRESS; WALL SHEAR STRESS GRADIENTS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES; CYTOLOGY; HEMODYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; SELF ASSEMBLY; SHEAR STRESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ENDOTHELIAL CELLS;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CELL SHAPE; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GEOMETRY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERMEABILITY; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRESS; SHOULDER; SPATIAL WALL SHEAR STRESS; STENOSIS; SUBENDOTHELIUM; THROMBOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CELL CULTURE; CELL SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; SHEAR STRENGTH;

ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CELL SIZE; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SHEAR STRENGTH;

EID: 77955379882     PISSN: 01480731     EISSN: 15288951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4001891     Document Type: Article

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