Decellularized xenografts in regenerative medicine: From processing to clinical application

H Capella‐Monsonís, DI Zeugolis - Xenotransplantation, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Decellularized xenografts are an inherent component of regenerative medicine. Their
preserved structure, mechanical integrity and biofunctional composition have well …

Evaluation of transcatheter heart valve biomaterials: Biomechanical characterization of bovine and porcine pericardium

A Caballero, F Sulejmani, C Martin, T Pham… - Journal of the mechanical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective Bovine pericardium (BP) has been identified as a choice biomaterial for the
development of surgical bioprosthetic heart valves (BHV) and transcatheter aortic valves …

An investigation of the anisotropic mechanical properties and anatomical structure of porcine atrioventricular heart valves

S Jett, D Laurence, R Kunkel, AR Babu… - Journal of the …, 2018 - Elsevier
Valvular heart diseases are complex disorders, varying in pathophysiological mechanism
and affected valve components. Understanding the effects of these diseases on valve …

Manifold learning based data-driven modeling for soft biological tissues

Q He, DW Laurence, CH Lee, JS Chen - Journal of biomechanics, 2021 - Elsevier
Data-driven modeling directly utilizes experimental data with machine learning techniques
to predict a material's response without the necessity of using phenomenological constitutive …

Biomaterial characterization of off‐the‐shelf decellularized porcine pericardial tissue for use in prosthetic valvular applications

JA Choe, S Jana, BJ Tefft, RS Hennessy… - Journal of tissue …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Fixed pericardial tissue is commonly used for commercially available xenograft valve
implants, and has proven durability, but lacks the capability to remodel and grow …

Biomaterials and biofabrication strategies for tissue-engineered heart valves

B Mirani, N Latifi, M Lecce, X Zhang, CA Simmons - Matter, 2024 - cell.com
Current mechanical and bioprosthetic heart valve replacements suffer from thrombogenicity
or poor durability and do not grow, regenerate, or repair. Tissue-engineered heart valves …

Early safety and feasibility of a first-in-class biomimetic transcatheter aortic valve-DurAVR

SK Kodali, P Sorajja, CU Meduri, K Feldt… - …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background TAVI is a widely accepted treatment for patients with severe aortic stenosis
(AS). Despite the adoption of diverse therapies, opportunities remain to develop …

Valve leaflet‐inspired elastomeric scaffolds with tunable and anisotropic mechanical properties

Y Xue, P Ravishankar, MA Zeballos… - Polymers for …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fibrous scaffolds, which can mimic the elastic and anisotropic mechanical properties of
native tissues, hold great promise in recapitulating the native tissue microenvironment. We …

Ex vivo experimental characterizations for understanding the interrelationship between tissue mechanics and collagen microstructure of porcine mitral valve leaflets

DJ Fitzpatrick, K Pham, CJ Ross, LT Hudson… - Journal of the …, 2022 - Elsevier
Unidirectional blood flow in the left side of the heart is regulated by the mitral valve. To better
understand the mitral valve function, researchers have examined the structural and …

An improved parameter estimation and comparison for soft tissue constitutive models containing an exponential function

A Aggarwal - Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 2017 - Springer
Motivated by the well-known result that stiffness of soft tissue is proportional to the stress,
many of the constitutive laws for soft tissues contain an exponential function. In this work, we …