Vascular mechanobiology: homeostasis, adaptation, and disease

JD Humphrey, MA Schwartz - Annual review of biomedical …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Cells of the vascular wall are exquisitely sensitive to changes in their mechanical
environment. In healthy vessels, mechanical forces regulate signaling and gene expression …

[HTML][HTML] Constrained mixture models of soft tissue growth and remodeling–twenty years after

JD Humphrey - Journal of Elasticity, 2021 - Springer
Soft biological tissues compromise diverse cell types and extracellular matrix constituents,
each of which can possess individual natural configurations, material properties, and rates …

Spontaneous reversal of stenosis in tissue-engineered vascular grafts

JD Drews, VK Pepper, CA Best, JM Szafron… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
We developed a tissue-engineered vascular graft (TEVG) for use in children and present
results of a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)–approved clinical trial evaluating this …

A haemodynamic predictor of intraluminal thrombus formation in abdominal aortic aneurysms

P Di Achille, G Tellides… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Intraluminal thrombus (ILT) is present in over 75% of all abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs)
and probably contributes to the complex biomechanics and pathobiology of these lesions. A …

Growth and remodeling of load-bearing biological soft tissues

CJ Cyron, JD Humphrey - Meccanica, 2017 - Springer
The past two decades reveal a growing role of continuum biomechanics in understanding
homeostasis, adaptation, and disease progression in soft tissues. In this paper, we briefly …

A homogenized constrained mixture (and mechanical analog) model for growth and remodeling of soft tissue

CJ Cyron, RC Aydin, JD Humphrey - Biomechanics and modeling in …, 2016 - Springer
Most mathematical models of the growth and remodeling of load-bearing soft tissues are
based on one of two major approaches: a kinematic theory that specifies an evolution …

Differential cell-matrix mechanoadaptations and inflammation drive regional propensities to aortic fibrosis, aneurysm or dissection in hypertension

MR Bersi, R Khosravi, AJ Wujciak… - Journal of The …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The embryonic lineage of intramural cells, microstructural organization of the extracellular
matrix, local luminal and wall geometry, and haemodynamic loads vary along the length of …

Biomechanical investigation of disturbed hemodynamics-induced tissue degeneration in abdominal aortic aneurysms using computational and experimental …

HE Salman, B Ramazanli, MM Yavuz… - … in bioengineering and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is the dilatation of the aorta beyond 50% of the normal
vessel diameter. It is reported that 4–8% of men and 0.5–1% of women above 50 years of …

Homogenized constrained mixture models for anisotropic volumetric growth and remodeling

FA Bräu, A Seitz, RC Aydin, CJ Cyron - Biomechanics and modeling in …, 2017 - Springer
Constrained mixture models for soft tissue growth and remodeling have attracted increasing
attention over the last decade. They can capture the effects of the simultaneous presence of …

Neural operator learning of heterogeneous mechanobiological insults contributing to aortic aneurysms

S Goswami, DS Li, BV Rego… - Journal of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) is a localized dilatation of the aorta that can lead to life-
threatening dissection or rupture. In vivo assessments of TAA progression are largely limited …