Mechanical stimulation has been shown to dramatically improve mechanical and functional properties of gel-derived tissue engineered blood vessels (TEBVs). Adjusting factors such as cell source, type of extracellular matrix, cross-linking, magnitude, frequency, and time course of mechanical stimuli (among many other factors) make interpretation of experimental results challenging. Interpretation of data from such multifactor experiments requires modeling. We present a modeling framework and simulations for mechanically mediated growth, remodeling, plasticity, and damage of gel-derived TEBVs that merge ideas from classical plasticity, volumetric growth, and continuum damage mechanics. Our results are compared with published data and suggest that this model framework can predict the evolution of geometry and material behavior under common experimental loading scenarios.
Issue Section:
Research Papers
Keywords:
biological fluid dynamics,
blood vessels,
cellular biophysics,
continuum mechanics,
gels,
plasticity,
tissue engineering,
mechanical conditioning,
mechanotransduction,
volumetric growth
Topics:
Biological tissues,
Damage,
Plasticity,
Stress,
Blood vessels,
Simulation,
Vessels,
Deformation,
Yield stress
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