Biomechanical regulation of vascular smooth muscle cell functions: from in vitro to in vivo understanding

J Qiu, Y Zheng, J Hu, D Liao… - Journal of The …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) have critical functions in vascular diseases.
Haemodynamic factors are important regulators of VSMC functions in vascular …

Measurement of the uniaxial mechanical properties of healthy and atherosclerotic human coronary arteries

A Karimi, M Navidbakhsh, A Shojaei… - Materials Science and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Atherosclerosis is a common arterial disease which alters the stiffness of arterial wall.
Arterial stiffness is related to many cardiovascular diseases. In this investigation, maximum …

Biaxial rupture properties of ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms

A Duprey, O Trabelsi, M Vola, JP Favre, S Avril - Acta biomaterialia, 2016 - Elsevier
Although hundreds of samples obtained from ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms (ATAA)
of patients undergoing elective surgical repair have already been characterized …

Review of machine learning techniques in soft tissue biomechanics and biomaterials

S Donmazov, EN Saruhan, K Pekkan… - Cardiovascular …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background and Objective Advanced material models and material characterization
of soft biological tissues play an essential role in pre-surgical planning for vascular surgeries …

A finite element investigation on plaque vulnerability in realistic healthy and atherosclerotic human coronary arteries

A Karimi, M Navidbakhsh, S Faghihi… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Atherosclerosis is the most common arterial disease. It has been shown that stresses that
are induced during blood circulation can cause plaque rupture and, in turn, lead to …

Layer-specific residual deformations and uniaxial and biaxial mechanical properties of thoracic porcine aorta

JA Peña, MA Martínez, E Peña - Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper we hypothesize that the layer-separated residual stresses and mechanical
properties of layer-separated thoracic aorta arteries may be dependent on arterial location of …

Influence of geometrical parameters on radial force during self-expanding stent deployment. Application for a variable radial stiffness stent

A García, E Peña, MA Martínez - Journal of the mechanical behavior of …, 2012 - Elsevier
The goal of this work is to study the influence of the main geometrical parameters on the
radial force of a self-expanding stent, and using them to advance towards a new design of a …

A novel anisotropic failure criterion with dispersed fiber orientations for aortic tissues

M Liu, H Dong, X Lou, G Iannucci… - Journal of …, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Accurate failure criteria play a fundamental role in biomechanical analyses of aortic wall
rupture and dissection. Experimental investigations have demonstrated a significant …

Microstructural quantification of collagen fiber orientations and its integration in constitutive modeling of the porcine carotid artery

P Sáez, A García, E Peña, TC Gasser, MA Martínez - Acta biomaterialia, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Mechanical characteristics of vascular tissue may play a role in different arterial
pathologies, which, amongst others, requires robust constitutive descriptions to capture the …

Over length quantification of the multiaxial mechanical properties of the ascending, descending and abdominal aorta using Digital Image Correlation

JA Peña, V Corral, MA Martinez, E Pena - Journal of the mechanical …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, we hypothesize that the biaxial mechanical properties of the aorta may be
dependent on arterial location. To demonstrate any possible position-related difference, our …