Investigating developmental cardiovascular biomechanics and the origins of congenital heart defects

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 5, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Kowalski, William J ^a,b   Pekkan, Kerem ^c   Tinney, Joseph P ^a,b   Keller, Bradley B ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Cardiovascular development; Computational modeling; Congenital heart disease; Embryo; Hemodynamics

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE 3; ENDOTHELIN 1; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 2; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR VALVE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART OUTPUT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; MATERNAL STRESS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHEAR RATE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84908367644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00408     Document Type: Review

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