Creating a model of diseased artery damage and failure from healthy porcine aorta

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volumn 60, Issue , 2016, Pages 378-393

  Noble, Christopher ^a   Smulders, Nicole ^b   Green, Nicola H ^a   Lewis, Roger ^a   Carré, Matt J ^a   Franklin, Steve E ^b   MacNeil, Sheila ^a   Taylor, Zeike A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collagenase; Diseased tissue model; Elastase; Glutaraldehyde; Porcine aorta; Uniaxial tension

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; BLOOD VESSELS; CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; FRACTURE; TENSILE TESTING;

COLLAGENASE; DISEASED TISSUES; ELASTASE; GLUTARALDEHYDES; PORCINE AORTA; UNIAXIAL TENSIONS;

TISSUE;

COLLAGENASE; ELASTASE; GLUTARALDEHYDE; PANCREATIC ELASTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY INJURY; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURVE FITTING; ELASTIC TISSUE; ELASTICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL MODEL; PIG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENSION; THORACIC AORTA; TISSUE REACTION; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; DISEASE MODEL; HEART DISEASE; MECHANICAL STRESS; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; COLLAGENASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLUTARAL; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SWINE;

EID: 84959296727     PISSN: 17516161     EISSN: 18780180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2016.02.018     Document Type: Article

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