Turnover of fibrillar collagen in soft biological tissue with application to the expansion of abdominal aortic aneurysms

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 77, 2012, Pages 3366-3377

  Martufi, Giampaolo ^a   Gasser, T Christian ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Constitutive modeling; Growth; Remodelling; Rupture; Vascular tissue

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); PHYSIOLOGY; STRESSES; TISSUE;

ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS; ANEURYSM; BIOMECHANICAL SIMULATION; COLLAGEN FIBRES; COLLAGEN FIBRILS; FIBRILLAR COLLAGENS; HIGH STRESS; IN-VIVO; MACROSCOPIC PROPERTIES; MACROSCOPIC STRESS; MECHANICAL ENVIRONMENT; MODEL PARAMETERS; MULTISCALES; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; REMARKABLE IMPACT; REMODELLING; RIGOROUS VALIDATION; RUPTURE; SOFT BIOLOGICAL TISSUE; STRESS FIELD; TISSUE ADAPTATION; TURNOVER MODELS; VASCULAR GEOMETRY; VASCULAR TISSUE; VASCULAR WALL; VESSEL WALLS;

COLLAGEN;

FIBRILLAR COLLAGEN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; ELASTICITY; FIBROBLAST; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICAL STRESS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SHEAR STRESS;

EID: 84868575742     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0416     Document Type: Article

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