Aortic valve: Mechanical environment and mechanobiology

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1331-1346

  Arjunon, Sivakkumar ^a   Rathan, Swetha ^b   Jo, Hanjoong ^a,c   Yoganathan, Ajit P ^a,b  

^a Emory University   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic valve; Bicuspid; Calcification; Mechanobiology; Pressure; Shear stress; Stretch

Indexed keywords

AORTIC VALVES; BICUSPID; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL METHODS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; MECHANICAL ENVIRONMENT; MECHANO-BIOLOGY; STRETCH;

BIOMECHANICS; BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); HEMODYNAMICS; MECHANISMS; PATHOLOGY; PRESSURE; SHEAR STRESS; TISSUE;

VALVES (MECHANICAL);

ANIMAL; AORTA VALVE; BIOMECHANICS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; AORTIC VALVE; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS;

EID: 84879414958     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-013-0785-7     Document Type: Review

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