Stress, Mechanical

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 'Seeing' Strain in Soft Materials. 
  • 3D cardiac μtissues within a microfluidic device with real-time contractile stress readout. 
  • A biomechanical comparison of the methods for treating Kienböck's disease. 
  • A device to study the effects of stretch gradients on cell behavior. 
  • A finite-element method model of soft tissue response to impulsive acoustic radiation force. 
  • A focal stress gradient-dependent mass transfer mechanism for atherogenesis in branching arteries. 
  • A linear material model for fiber-induced anisotropy of the anulus fibrosus. 
  • A mechano-chemical model for the passive swelling response of an isolated chondron under osmotic loading. 
  • A microstructurally motivated model of the mechanical behavior of tissue engineered blood vessels. 
  • A minimally invasive method for the determination of force in the interosseous ligament. 
  • A new model to simulate the elastic properties of mineralized collagen fibril. 
  • A nonlinear hyperelastic mixture theory model for anisotropy, transport, and swelling of annulus fibrosus. 
  • A parallel tracking method for acoustic radiation force impulse imaging. 
  • A piece-wise non-linear elastic stress expression of human and pig coronary arteries tested in vitro. 
  • A sensitive measure of surface stress in the resting neutrophil. 
  • A single integral finite strain viscoelastic model of ligaments and tendons. 
  • A single molecule detection method for understanding mechanisms of electric field-mediated interstitial transport of genes. 
  • A technical problem in the calculation of laminar flow near irregular surfaces described by sampled geometric data. 
  • Aberrant planar cell polarity induced by urinary tract obstruction. 
  • Acoustic and mechanical properties of artificial stones in comparison to natural kidney stones. 
  • Acoustic and mechanical properties of renal calculi: implications in shock wave lithotripsy. 
  • Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging of myocardial radiofrequency ablation: initial in vivo results. 
  • Acute injuries of the lateral ligaments of the ankle: comparison of stress radiography and arthrography. 
  • Adductor longus mechanics during the maximal effort soccer kick. 
  • Adhesion of red cells to foreign surfaces in the presence of flow. 
  • Ageing increases reliance on sensorimotor prediction through structural and functional differences in frontostriatal circuits. 
  • Aggressive quadriceps loading can induce noncontact anterior cruciate ligament injury. 
  • All-inside meniscal repair devices compared with their matched inside-out vertical mattress suture repair: introducing 10,000 and 100,000 loading cycles. 
  • Alteration in fluid mechanics in porcine femoral arteries with atheroma development. 
  • Alterations in gene expression induced by cyclic mechanical stress in trabecular meshwork cells. 
  • Alterations in the mechanical behavior of the human lumbar nucleus pulposus with degeneration and aging. 
  • Alterations in the mechanical properties of the human chondrocyte pericellular matrix with osteoarthritis. 
  • An adherence tensiometer for evaluation of burn dressings. 
  • An analysis of changes in in vivo cartilage thickness of the healthy ankle following dynamic activity. 
  • An analysis of the mechanical parameters used for finite element compression of a high-resolution 3D breast phantom. 
  • An anatomical investigation of the human cervical facet capsule, quantifying muscle insertion area. 
  • An arthroscopic technique for confirming intra-articular subluxation of the long head of the biceps tendon: the ramp test. 
  • An axisymmetric boundary element model for determination of articular cartilage pericellular matrix properties in situ via inverse analysis of chondron deformation. 
  • An axisymmetric boundary integral model for assessing elastic cell properties in the micropipette aspiration contact problem. 
  • An improved method for finite element mesh generation of geometrically complex structures with application to the skullbase. 
  • An in vivo strain-gauge analysis of the squamosal-dentary joint reaction force during mastication and incisal biting in Macaca mulatta and Macaca fascicularis. 
  • Analysis of hydrostatic pressure-induced changes in umbrella cell surface area. 
  • Ankyrin-B directs membrane tethering of periaxin and is required for maintenance of lens fiber cell hexagonal shape and mechanics. 
  • Anomalous bending effect in photonic crystal fibers. 
  • Anterior staple capsulorrhaphy for recurrent dislocation of the shoulder: a clinical and biomechanical study. 
  • Aortic aneurysms: It's all about the stress. 
  • Apparent elastic modulus and hysteresis of skeletal muscle cells throughout differentiation. 
  • Arterial response to shear stress critically depends on endothelial TRPV4 expression. 
  • Assessment of primary hemostasis by PFA-100 analysis in a tertiary care center. 
  • Assessments of thrombogenicity by three in vitro techniques. Student Research Award in the Undergraduate, Master Candidate, or Health Science Degree Candidate Category, 21st annual meeting of the Society for Biomaterials, San Francisco, CA, March 18-22, 1995. 
  • Association between secondary flow in models of the aorto-celiac junction and subendothelial macrophages in the normal rabbit. 
  • Atomic force and total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy for the study of force transmission in endothelial cells. 
  • Augmentation of posterior wall acetabular fracture fixation using calcium-phosphate cement: a biomechanical analysis. 
  • Autophagy and mechanotransduction in outflow pathway cells. 
  • Bearing area: a new indication for suture anchor pullout strength? 
  • Bending of the looping heart: differential growth revisited. 
  • Bending stiffness and pull-out strength of tapered, variable pitch screws, and 6.5-mm cancellous screws in acute Jones fractures. 
  • Beta-arrestins specifically constrain beta2-adrenergic receptor signaling and function in airway smooth muscle. 
  • Biaxial Stretch Improves Elastic Fiber Maturation, Collagen Arrangement, and Mechanical Properties in Engineered Arteries. 
  • Biaxial strain effects on cells from the inner and outer regions of the meniscus. 
  • Bioelectrorheological model of the cell. 5. Electrodestruction of cellular membrane in alternating electric field. 
  • Biomechanical analysis of silicon microelectrode-induced strain in the brain. 
  • Biomechanical comparison of stimulated and nonstimulated skeletal muscle pulled to failure. 
  • Biomechanical consequences of PCL deficiency in the knee under simulated muscle loads--an in vitro experimental study. 
  • Biomechanical effects of flow and coculture on human aortic and cord blood-derived endothelial cells. 
  • Biomechanical evaluation of a simulated Bankart lesion. 
  • Biomechanical factors in osteoarthritis. 
  • Biomechanical response of the human clavicle: the effects of loading direction on bending properties. 
  • Biomechanical strain as a trigger for pore formation in Schlemm's canal endothelial cells. 
  • Biomechanics and pathophysiology of overuse tendon injuries: ideas on insertional tendinopathy. 
  • Biomechanics of the hip joint and the effects of fracture of the acetabulum. 
  • Biomechanics of turtle shells: how whole shells fail in compression. 
  • Biomechanics: cell research and applications for the next decade. 
  • Bubble growth and mechanical properties of tissue in decompression. 
  • CHST1 and CHST2 sulfotransferase expression by vascular endothelial cells regulates shear-resistant leukocyte rolling via L-selectin. 
  • Ca-activation and stretch-activation in insect flight muscle. 
  • Cardiac strain during upright cycle ergometry in adolescent males. 
  • Cartilage mechanics in the guinea pig model of osteoarthritis studied with an osmotic loading method. 
  • Cartilage-like mechanical properties of poly (ethylene glycol)-diacrylate hydrogels. 
  • Cell mechanics: dissecting the physical responses of cells to force. 
  • Characterization of a sudden expansion flow chamber to study the response of endothelium to flow recirculation. 
  • Characterization of the passive responses of live skeletal muscle using the quasi-linear theory of viscoelasticity. 
  • Chondrocyte deformation and local tissue strain in articular cartilage: a confocal microscopy study. 
  • Circulating Exosomes Induced by Cardiac Pressure Overload Contain Functional Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptors. 
  • Circumferential tensile stiffness of glaucomatous trabecular meshwork. 
  • Clinical utility of the platelet function analyzer (PFA-100) for the assessment of the platelet status in patients with congestive heart failure (EPCOT trial). 
  • Clustered cancer cells show a distinct adhesion behavior from single cell form under physiological shear conditions. 
  • Comparative strength of three methods of fixation of transverse acetabular fractures. 
  • Comparative strengths and structural properties of the upper and lower cervical spine in flexion and extension. 
  • Comparative structural neck responses of the THOR-NT, Hybrid III, and human in combined tension-bending and pure bending. 
  • Comparison of the mechanical properties of different tension band materials and suture techniques. 
  • Compression forces of internal and external ankle fixation devices with simulated bone resorption. 
  • Compression-induced changes in the shape and volume of the chondrocyte nucleus. 
  • Compressive cyclic ratcheting and fatigue of synthetic, soft biomedical polymers in solution. 
  • Compressive mechanical properties of the human anulus fibrosus and their relationship to biochemical composition. 
  • Compressive properties of mouse articular cartilage determined in a novel micro-indentation test method and biphasic finite element model. 
  • Computational fluid dynamics analysis to determine shear stresses and rates in a centrifugal left ventricular assist device. 
  • Contribution of afterload, hypertrophy and geometry to left ventricular ejection fraction in aortic valve stenosis, pure aortic regurgitation and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. 
  • Contribution of articular surface geometry to ankle stabilization. 
  • Control of Skeletal Muscle Cell Growth and Size Through Adhesion GPCRs. 
  • Correlation between heart valve interstitial cell stiffness and transvalvular pressure: implications for collagen biosynthesis. 
  • Cross-talk between TGF-beta1 and IL-6 in human trabecular meshwork cells. 
  • Cyclic loading alters biomechanical properties and secretion of PGE2 and NO from tendon explants. 
  • Cyclic mechanical stress and trabecular meshwork cell contractility. 
  • Cytotoxicity and thermomechanical behavior of biomedical shape-memory polymer networks post-sterilization. 
  • Decellularized native and engineered arterial scaffolds for transplantation. 
  • Degeneration affects the anisotropic and nonlinear behaviors of human anulus fibrosus in compression. 
  • Depletion of plasma membrane cholesterol dampens hydrostatic pressure and shear stress-induced mechanotransduction pathways in osteoblast cultures. 
  • Design considerations for an integrated microphysiological muscle tissue for drug and tissue toxicity testing. 
  • Design of an integrated sensor for in vivo simultaneous electrocontractile cardiac mapping. 
  • Determination of optimal graft lengths for posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction--a theoretical analysis. 
  • Determination of the Poisson's ratio of the cell: recovery properties of chondrocytes after release from complete micropipette aspiration. 
  • Development of a novel surface modification for improved bonding to zirconia. 
  • Development of an animal model of acetabular fractures. 
  • Differences in arterial and venous thromboelastography parameters: potential roles of shear stress and oxygen content. 
  • Different ontogeny of rate of force generation and shortening velocity in guinea pig trachealis. 
  • Differential effects of static and dynamic compression on meniscal cell gene expression. 
  • Differential orientation of 10T1/2 mesenchymal cells on non-uniform stretch environments. 
  • Differentiation of the bone-tissue remodeling response to axial and torsional loading in the turkey ulna. 
  • Diffusion and mobility in a stirred dense granular material. 
  • Direct evidence that coronary perfusion affects diastolic myocardial mechanical properties in canine heart. 
  • Direct measurement of the Poisson's ratio of human patella cartilage in tension. 
  • Direct-contact co-culture between smooth muscle and endothelial cells inhibits TNF-alpha-mediated endothelial cell activation. 
  • Discussion: "On the Thermodynamical Admissibility of the Triphasic Theory of Charged Hydrated Tissues" (Huyghe, J. M., Wilson, W., and Malakpoor, K., ASME J. Biomech. Eng., 2009, 131, p. 044504). 
  • Dissolvable films of silk fibroin for ultrathin conformal bio-integrated electronics. 
  • Distributing a fixed amount of cyclic loading to tendon explants over longer periods induces greater cellular and mechanical responses. 
  • Distribution of shear stress over smooth muscle cells in deformable arterial wall. 
  • Do Surface Porosity and Pore Size Influence Mechanical Properties and Cellular Response to PEEK? 
  • Does the degree of coarctation of the aorta influence wall shear stress focal heterogeneity? 
  • Dorsal root ganglia neurite extension is inhibited by mechanical and chondroitin sulfate-rich interfaces. 
  • Drained secant modulus for human and porcine peripapillary sclera using unconfined compression testing. 
  • Dynamic adhesion of umbilical cord blood endothelial progenitor cells under laminar shear stress. 
  • Dynamic fatigue and strength characterization of three ceramic materials. 
  • Dynamic infrared linear dichroism study of the temperature-dependent, viscoelastic behavior of a poly(ester urethane). 
  • Dynamic injury tolerances for long bones of the female upper extremity. 
  • Dynamic loading enhances integrative meniscal repair in the presence of interleukin-1. 
  • Dynamic mechanical response of elastic spherical inclusions to impulsive acoustic radiation force excitation. 
  • Dynamic responses of the head and cervical spine to axial impact loading. 
  • Dynamics of neutrophil membrane compliance and microstructure probed with a micropipet-based piconewton force transducer. 
  • Early mechanical failure of highly cross-linked porcine dermal matrix for abdominal wall reconstruction. 
  • Effect of Chemical and Physical Properties on the In Vitro Degradation of 3D Printed High Resolution Poly(propylene fumarate) Scaffolds. 
  • Effect of YSZ thin film coating thickness on the strength of a ceramic substrate. 
  • Effect of bone strain on cortical bone structure in macaques (Macaca mulatta). 
  • Effect of cellular senescence on the P2Y-receptor mediated calcium response in trabecular meshwork cells. 
  • Effect of contact time and force on monocyte adhesion to vascular endothelium. 
  • Effect of fluid shear stress on the permeability of the arterial endothelium. 
  • Effect of implantation accuracy on ankle contact mechanics with a metallic focal resurfacing implant. 
  • Effects of cardiac motion on right coronary artery hemodynamics. 
  • Effects of cartilage impact with and without fracture on chondrocyte viability and the release of inflammatory markers. 
  • Effects of cyclic intraocular pressure on conventional outflow facility. 
  • Effects of global ischemia on the diastolic properties of the left ventricle in the conscious dog. 
  • Effects of ligand binding on the mechanical properties of ankyrin repeat protein gankyrin. 
  • Effects of recirculating flow on U-937 cell adhesion to human umbilical vein endothelial cells. 
  • Elastic hydrogel as a sensor for detection of mechanical stress generated by single cells grown in three-dimensional environment. 
  • Elastic properties and masticatory bone stress in the macaque mandible. 
  • Electron tomography of fast frozen, stretched rigor fibers reveals elastic distortions in the myosin crossbridges. 
  • Electrophysiologic properties of the myocardial infarction border zone: effects of transient aortic occlusion. 
  • Endogenous production of extracellular adenosine by trabecular meshwork cells: potential role in outflow regulation. 
  • Endothelial nitric oxide synthase-related mechanotransduction changes in aged porcine angular aqueous plexus cells. 
  • Equilibrium sampling for biomolecules under mechanical tension. 
  • Estimates of echo correlation and measurement bias in acoustic radiation force impulse imaging. 
  • Estimation of the transverse strain tensor in the arterial wall using IVUS image registration. 
  • Estimation of wall stress and left ventricular mass by noninvasive techniques and clinical implications. 
  • Evaluation of biaxial mechanical properties of soft tubes and arteries using sonometry. 
  • Evaluation of command algorithms for control of upper-extremity neural prostheses. 
  • Evolution of load transfer between hydroxyapatite and collagen during creep deformation of bone. 
  • Ex vivo glycan engineering of CD44 programs human multipotent mesenchymal stromal cell trafficking to bone. 
  • Experimental and biphasic FEM determinations of the material properties and hydraulic permeability of the meniscus in tension. 
  • Experimental studies of membrane tethers formed from human neutrophils. 
  • Experimental studies of the thermal effects associated with radiation force imaging of soft tissue. 
  • Extracellular mass transport considerations for space flight research concerning suspended and adherent in vitro cell cultures. 
  • Extracellular release of ATP mediated by cyclic mechanical stress leads to mobilization of AA in trabecular meshwork cells. 
  • Factors influencing the nonuniform localization of monocytes in the arterial wall. 
  • Finite element analysis on dental implant-supported prostheses without passive fit. 
  • Finite element modelling of pulsatile blood flow in idealized model of human aortic arch: study of hypotension and hypertension. 
  • Finite-element analysis of balloon angioplasty. 
  • Fixed tibial subluxation after successful anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. 
  • Flexible histone tails in a new mesoscopic oligonucleosome model. 
  • Flexor tendon tissue engineering: bioreactor cyclic strain increases construct strength. 
  • Fluid shear stress differentially modulates expression of genes encoding basic fibroblast growth factor and platelet-derived growth factor B chain in vascular endothelium. 
  • Food material properties and mandibular load resistance abilities in large-bodied hominoids. 
  • Force chains in a two-dimensional granular pure shear experiment. 
  • Force measurements of the alpha5beta1 integrin-fibronectin interaction. 
  • Force-induced prolyl cis-trans isomerization in elastin-like polypeptides. 
  • Fracture toughness improvements of dental ceramic through use of yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) thin-film coatings. 
  • Fragility and mechanosensing in a thermalized cytoskeleton model with forced protein unfolding. 
  • Frictional contact mechanics methods for soft materials: application to tracking breast cancers. 
  • Function of the supraorbital region of primates. 
  • Functional tissue engineering: the role of biomechanics. 
  • Functionalized few-walled carbon nanotubes for mechanical reinforcement of polymeric composites. 
  • Gleevec, an Abl family inhibitor, produces a profound change in cell shape and migration. 
  • Glucose utilization by edematous rat lungs. 
  • Hamstring muscle kinematics and activation during overground sprinting. 
  • Hand and body position during locomotor behavior in the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis). 
  • Healing segmental femoral defects in sheep using recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein. 
  • Hemocompatibility-Related Outcomes in the MOMENTUM 3 Trial at 6 Months: A Randomized Controlled Study of a Fully Magnetically Levitated Pump in Advanced Heart Failure. 
  • Hemodynamic characterization of geometric cerebral aneurysm templates. 
  • Hemodynamic parameters and early intimal thickening in branching blood vessels. 
  • High body mass index is associated with increased diurnal strains in the articular cartilage of the knee. 
  • High intensity focused ultrasound-induced gene activation in solid tumors. 
  • High intensity focused ultrasound-induced gene activation in sublethally injured tumor cells in vitro. 
  • High-resolution determination of soft tissue deformations using MRI and first-order texture correlation. 
  • Highly-compliant, microcable neuroelectrodes fabricated from thin-film gold and PDMS. 
  • Hindlimb endpoint forces predict movement direction evoked by intraspinal microstimulation in cats. 
  • Hot Topics in Biomechanics: Hip Fracture Fixation. 
  • How cells get the right chromosomes. 
  • How vinculin regulates force transmission. 
  • IL-1beta sensitizes intervertebral disc annulus cells to fluid-induced shear stress. 
  • Imaging deformation of adherent cells due to shear stress using quantitative phase imaging. 
  • Impact of surface porosity and topography on the mechanical behavior of high strength biomedical polymers. 
  • Importance of nonlinear and multivariable flexibility coefficients in the prediction of human cervical spine motion. 
  • In vitro generation of mechanically functional cartilage grafts based on adult human stem cells and 3D-woven poly(epsilon-caprolactone) scaffolds. 
  • In vivo and in vitro bone strain in the owl monkey circumorbital region and the function of the postorbital septum. 
  • In vivo glenohumeral translation under anterior loading in an open-MRI set-up. 
  • In vivo penetration mechanics and mechanical properties of mouse brain tissue at micrometer scales. 
  • Incompressibility of the solid matrix of articular cartilage under high hydrostatic pressures. 
  • Increased yield of endothelial cells from peripheral blood for cell therapies and tissue engineering. 
  • Increasing the maximum achievable strain of a covalent polymer gel through the addition of mechanically invisible cross-links. 
  • Individual and combined effects of shear stress magnitude and spatial gradient on endothelial cell gene expression. 
  • Induction of IL-6 expression by mechanical stress in the trabecular meshwork. 
  • Induction of TGF-beta1 in the trabecular meshwork under cyclic mechanical stress. 
  • Induction of cyclooxygenase-2 by mechanical stress through a nitric oxide-regulated pathway. 
  • Influence of trauma on the unusual distribution of metastases from carcinoma of the larynx. 
  • Integrating Mechanical Force into Lung Development. 
  • Integrative repair of the meniscus: lessons from in vitro studies. 
  • Interaction of wall shear stress magnitude and gradient in the prediction of arterial macromolecular permeability. 
  • Interleukin-1 and tumor necrosis factor alpha inhibit repair of the porcine meniscus in vitro. 
  • Internal strain gradients quantified in bone under load using high-energy X-ray scattering. 
  • Intra-articular talar fractures: repair using the Herbert bone screw. 
  • Intracardiac acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) and shear wave imaging in pigs with focal infarctions. 
  • Investigations into pulsed high-intensity focused ultrasound-enhanced delivery: preliminary evidence for a novel mechanism. 
  • Jaw muscle function and wishboning of the mandible during mastication in macaques and baboons. 
  • Knee-loading modality drives molecular transport in mouse femur. 
  • Laminar shear stress stimulates vascular smooth muscle cell apoptosis via the Akt pathway. 
  • Laminin mediates tethering and spreading of colon cancer cells in physiological shear flow. 
  • Large deformation finite element analysis of micropipette aspiration to determine the mechanical properties of the chondrocyte. 
  • Late-outgrowth endothelial progenitors from patients with coronary artery disease: endothelialization of confluent stromal cell layers. 
  • Left ventricular adaptation to aortic regurgitation in conscious dogs. 
  • Left ventricular shape, afterload and survival in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. 
  • Length oscillation induces force potentiation in infant guinea pig airway smooth muscle. 
  • Living in a physical world VII. Gravity and life on the ground. 
  • Living in a physical world XI. To twist or bend when stressed. 
  • Loading patterns and jaw movements during mastication in Macaca fascicularis: a bone-strain, electromyographic, and cineradiographic analysis. 
  • Log-rolling micelles in sheared amphiphilic thin films. 
  • Long-term microtensile bond strength of surface modified zirconia. 
  • Long-term optical brain imaging in live adult fruit flies. 
  • Longitudinal mechanical tension induces growth in the small bowel of juvenile rats. 
  • Loosely implanted cementless stems may become rotationally stable after loading. 
  • Low-dose dobutamine tissue-tagged magnetic resonance imaging with 3-dimensional strain analysis allows assessment of myocardial viability in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy. 
  • Low-shear modeled microgravity: a global environmental regulatory signal affecting bacterial gene expression, physiology, and pathogenesis. 
  • Lower extremity biomechanics during the landing of a stop-jump task. 
  • Lumbosacral plexus stretch injury following the use of the modified lithotomy position. 
  • MTOR-independent induction of autophagy in trabecular meshwork cells subjected to biaxial stretch. 
  • Mandibular corpus bone strain in goats and alpacas: implications for understanding the biomechanics of mandibular form in selenodont artiodactyls. 
  • Masticatory-stress hypotheses and the supraorbital region of primates. 
  • Maturation of guinea pig tracheal strip stiffness. 
  • Measurement of biaxial mechanical properties of soft tubes and arteries using piezoelectric elements and sonometry. 
  • Measurement of in vivo anterior cruciate ligament strain during dynamic jump landing. 
  • Measurement of intracellular strain on deformable substrates with texture correlation. 
  • Measurement of the elastic modulus for red cell membrane using a fluid mechanical technique. 
  • Measurement of the transverse strain tensor in the coronary arterial wall from clinical intravascular ultrasound images. 
  • Measuring mechanical tension across vinculin reveals regulation of focal adhesion dynamics 
  • Mechanical Signaling and Extracellular Matrix in Uterine Fibroids. 
  • Mechanical behavior of articular cartilage in shear is altered by transection of the anterior cruciate ligament. 
  • Mechanical dyssynchrony after myocardial infarction in patients with left ventricular dysfunction, heart failure, or both. 
  • Mechanical energy and effective foot mass during impact loading of walking and running. 
  • Mechanical load stimulates expression of novel genes in vivo and in vitro in avian flexor tendon cells. 
  • Mechanical loads on the ventilatory muscles. A theoretical analysis. 
  • Mechanical regulation of nuclear structure and function. 
  • Mechanical responsiveness of the endothelial cell of Schlemm's canal: scope, variability and its potential role in controlling aqueous humour outflow. 
  • Mechanical signals as regulators of stem cell fate. 
  • Mechanical stress and nitric oxide influence leukotriene production in cartilage. 
  • Mechanical stretch alters the actin cytoskeletal network and signal transduction in human trabecular meshwork cells. 
  • Mechanical stretch is a highly selective regulator of gene expression in human bladder smooth muscle cells. 
  • Mechanical unfolding of an ankyrin repeat protein. 
  • Mechanical unfolding of ubiquitin molecules. 
  • Mechanically interlocked calix[4]arene dimers display reversible bond breakage under force. 
  • Mechanically stimulated cytoskeleton rearrangement and cortical contraction in human neutrophils. 
  • Mechanics considerations for microporous titanium as an orthopedic implant material. 
  • Mechanics of sperm-egg interaction at the zona pellucida. 
  • Mechanobiology of the intervertebral disc and relevance to disc degeneration. 
  • Mechanochemistry: Force probes in a bottle. 
  • Mechanoelectrical excitation by fluid jets in monolayers of cultured cardiac myocytes. 
  • Mechanotransmission in endothelial cells subjected to oscillatory and multi-directional shear flow. 
  • Meta-analysis on biomechanical properties of meniscus repairs: are devices better than sutures? 
  • MicroRNA-24 regulates the processing of latent TGFβ1 during cyclic mechanical stress in human trabecular meshwork cells through direct targeting of FURIN. 
  • Microcantilever sensing and actuation with end-grafted stimulus-responsive elastin-like polypeptides. 
  • Microencapsulation of 2-octylcyanoacrylate tissue adhesive for self-healing acrylic bone cement. 
  • Microrheology, stress fluctuations, and active behavior of living cells. 
  • Microstructure evolution during impact on granular matter. 
  • Mitigation of hypertrophic scar contraction via an elastomeric biodegradable scaffold. 
  • Mobile bearings in primary knee arthroplasty. 
  • Modeling the adaptive permeability response of porcine iliac arteries to acute changes in mural shear. 
  • Modeling the biomechanics of articular eminence function in anthropoid primates. 
  • Modulation of myocilin/TIGR expression in human trabecular meshwork. 
  • Modulation of the contractile responses of guinea pig isolated tracheal rings after chronic intermittent hypobaric hypoxia with and without cold exposure. 
  • Molecular mechanisms of TRPV4-mediated neural signaling. 
  • Molecular stress relief through a force-induced irreversible extension in polymer contour length. 
  • Myocardial tolerance to mechanical actuation is affected by biomaterial characteristics. 
  • Nanomechanical fingerprints of UV damage to DNA. 
  • Nanomechanical fingerprints of gamma radiation damage to DNA. 
  • Nitinol intravascular stent: results of preclinical evaluation. 
  • Nitric oxide synthase and cyclooxygenase interactions in cartilage and meniscus: relationships to joint physiology, arthritis, and tissue repair. 
  • Non-linear viscoelastic properties of cervical mucus. 
  • Noninvasive, quantitative assessment of left ventricular function in ischemic cardiomyopathy. 
  • Nonuniform swelling-induced residual strains in articular cartilage. 
  • Normal and shear stresses influence the spatial distribution of intracellular adhesion molecule-1 expression in human umbilical vein endothelial cells exposed to sudden expansion flow. 
  • NuMA localization, stability, and function in spindle orientation involve 4.1 and Cdk1 interactions. 
  • Occipitocervical vertical distraction injuries: anatomical biomechanical, and 3-tesla magnetic resonance imaging investigation. 
  • Occlusal forces and mandibular bone strain: is the primate jaw "overdesigned"? 
  • On the Functional Role of Valve Interstitial Cell Stress Fibers: A Continuum Modeling Approach. 
  • Ontogeny of shortening velocity in porcine trachealis. 
  • Optical Phase Measurements of Disorder Strength Link Microstructure to Cell Stiffness. 
  • Optimization of flexor tendon tissue engineering with a cyclic strain bioreactor. 
  • Orientation and length of mammalian skeletal myocytes in response to a unidirectional stretch. 
  • Osmotic loading to determine the intrinsic material properties of guinea pig knee cartilage. 
  • Overexpression of lysyl oxidase to increase matrix crosslinking and improve tissue strength in dermal wound healing. 
  • Oxygen, nitric oxide and articular cartilage. 
  • PDGF-BB, IGF-I and mechanical load stimulate DNA synthesis in avian tendon fibroblasts in vitro. 
  • Passive mechanical properties of uterine muscle (myometrium) tested in vitro. 
  • Passive ventricular mechanics in tight-skin mice. 
  • Patellofemoral joint force and stress between a short- and long-step forward lunge. 
  • Pediatric thoracoabdominal biomechanics. 
  • Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate functions as a second messenger that regulates cytoskeleton-plasma membrane adhesion. 
  • Porcine carotid arterial material property alterations with induced atheroma: an in vivo study. 
  • Posterior labral injury in contact athletes. 
  • Potential strain-dependent mechanisms defining matrix alignment in healing tendons. 
  • Probing the Link among Genomic Cargo, Contact Mechanics, and Nanoindentation in Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus 2. 
  • Properties of medial gastrocnemius motor units and muscle fibers reinnervated by embryonic ventral spinal cord cells. 
  • Prosthetic silicone scaphoid strains: effects of intercarpal fusions. 
  • Pulling geometry-induced errors in single molecule force spectroscopy measurements. 
  • Pullout strength of suture anchors: effect of mechanical properties of trabecular bone. 
  • Quantification of in vitro endothelial cell adhesion to vascular graft material. 
  • Quantifying skeletal muscle properties in cadaveric test specimens: effects of mechanical loading, postmortem time, and freezer storage. 
  • Randomized study of washing 40- to 42-day-stored red blood cells. 
  • Rapid neck muscle adaptation alters the head kinematics of aware and unaware subjects undergoing multiple whiplash-like perturbations. 
  • Rapid self-healing hydrogels. 
  • Readily available tissue-engineered vascular grafts. 
  • Recovery following stretch injury to the sciatic nerve of the rat: an in vivo study. 
  • Regional material properties of the human hip joint capsule ligaments. 
  • Regional material property alterations in porcine femoral arteries with atheroma development. 
  • Regulation of chondrogenesis and chondrocyte differentiation by stress. 
  • Regulation of connective tissue growth factor expression in the aqueous humor outflow pathway. 
  • Regulation of matrix turnover in meniscal explants: role of mechanical stress, interleukin-1, and nitric oxide. 
  • Regulation of proliferation and platelet-derived growth factor expression in palmar fibromatosis (Dupuytren contracture) by mechanical strain. 
  • Relation between near-wall residence times of monocytes and early lesion growth in the rabbit aorto-celiac junction. 
  • Relation between non-uniform hemodynamics and sites of altered permeability and lesion growth at the rabbit aorto-celiac junction. 
  • Relationship between 3T3 cell spreading and the strength of adhesion on glass and silane surfaces. 
  • Relationship between tibial acceleration and proximal anterior tibia shear force across increasing jump distance. 
  • Release of endogenous danger signals from HIFU-treated tumor cells and their stimulatory effects on APCs. 
  • Repair of flexor digitorum profundus tendon avulsions from bone: an ex vivo biomechanical analysis. 
  • Results of the Gravity Stress Examination in the Normal Patient Population. 
  • Reverse actin sliding triggers strong myosin binding that moves tropomyosin. 
  • Review of In Vivo Bone Strain Studies and Finite Element Models of the Zygomatic Complex in Humans and Nonhuman Primates: Implications for Clinical Research and Practice. 
  • Review of the biology of bleeding and clotting in the surgical patient. 
  • Rheological properties of living cytoplasm: endoplasm of Physarum plasmodium. 
  • Role of Piezo Channels in Joint Health and Injury. 
  • Role of aquaporin-1 in trabecular meshwork cell homeostasis during mechanical strain. 
  • Role of biomechanics and muscle activation strategy in the production of endpoint force patterns in the cat hindlimb. 
  • Routine surveillance of modular PFC TKA shows increasing failures after 10 years. 
  • Select de novo gene and protein expression during renal epithelial cell culture in rotating wall vessels is shear stress dependent. 
  • Self-cleaning of superhydrophobic surfaces by self-propelled jumping condensate. 
  • Self-healing biomaterials. 
  • Semi-degradable poly(β-amino ester) networks with temporally controlled enhancement of mechanical properties. 
  • Sensing heart stress. 
  • Severe aortic insufficiency and normal systolic function: determining regional left ventricular wall stress by finite-element analysis. 
  • Shear flow-dependent integration of apical and subendothelial chemokines in T-cell transmigration: implications for locomotion and the multistep paradigm. 
  • Shear stress induces ATP-independent transient nitric oxide release from vascular endothelial cells, measured directly with a porphyrinic microsensor. 
  • Shear stress-associated acquired von Willebrand syndrome in patients with mitral regurgitation. 
  • Shear stress-triggered nitric oxide release from Schlemm's canal cells. 
  • Shear-induced aggregation and lysis of platelets. 
  • Shear-induced force transmission in a multicomponent, multicell model of the endothelium. 
  • Shear-induced tyrosine phosphorylation in endothelial cells requires Rac1-dependent production of ROS. 
  • Shear-wave generation using acoustic radiation force: in vivo and ex vivo results. 
  • Sheath Cell Invasion and Trans-differentiation Repair Mechanical Damage Caused by Loss of Caveolae in the Zebrafish Notochord. 
  • Short-term cell/substrate contact dynamics of subconfluent endothelial cells following exposure to laminar flow. 
  • Shunt fracture following correction of spinal deformity. Case illustration. 
  • Simultaneous identification of elastic properties, thickness, and diameter of arteries excited with ultrasound radiation force. 
  • Single molecular force spectroscopy of modular proteins in the nervous system. 
  • Single molecule mechanical manipulation for studying biological properties of proteins, DNA, and sugars. 
  • Site-specific effects of compression on macromolecular diffusion in articular cartilage. 
  • Spatial comparison between wall shear stress measures and porcine arterial endothelial permeability. 
  • Static and dynamic lengths of neutrophil microvilli. 
  • Static linear and nonlinear elastic properties of normal and arterialized venous tissue in dog and man. 
  • Statically equivalent load and support conditions produce different hip joint contact pressures and periacetabular strains. 
  • Statistical hemodynamics: a tool for evaluating the effect of fluid dynamic forces on vascular biology in vivo. 
  • Sternal plating for the treatment of sternal nonunion. 
  • Stochastic hyperelastic constitutive laws and identification procedure for soft biological tissues with intrinsic variability. 
  • Strain in the galago facial skull. 
  • Strain patterns in the patellar tendon and the implications for patellar tendinopathy. 
  • Strength and stability of posterior lumbar interbody fusion. Comparison of titanium fiber mesh implant and tricortical bone graft. 
  • Stress and strain in the mandibular symphysis of primates: a test of competing hypotheses. 
  • Stress correlations in granular materials: an entropic formulation. 
  • Stress is good and bad for tumors. 
  • Stress response of the trabecular meshwork. 
  • Stress-specific activation mechanisms for the "cell integrity" MAPK pathway. 
  • Stretch-induced nitric oxide modulates mechanical properties of skeletal muscle cells. 
  • Stretch-regulated exocytosis/endocytosis in bladder umbrella cells. 
  • Stretching single molecules into novel conformations using the atomic force microscope. 
  • Stretching single protein molecules: titin is a weird spring. 
  • Structure and thermomechanical behavior of NiTiPt shape memory alloy wires. 
  • Surface adhesion, deformation and detachment at low shear of red cells and white cells. 
  • Surface projections of titanium substrates increase antithrombotic endothelial function in response to shear stress. 
  • Surface-stress-induced phase transformation in metal nanowires. 
  • Swelling and curling behaviors of articular cartilage. 
  • Swelling and mechanical behaviors of chemically cross-linked hydrogels of elastin-like polypeptides. 
  • Synergistic effect of shear stress and streptavidin-biotin on the expression of endothelial vasodilator and cytoskeleton genes. 
  • Synergy between Piezo1 and Piezo2 channels confers high-strain mechanosensitivity to articular cartilage. 
  • Synthesis, characterization, and cyclic stress-influenced degradation of a poly(ethylene glycol)-based poly(beta-amino ester). 
  • TNF is required for the induction but not the maintenance of compression-induced BME signals in murine tail vertebrae: limitations of anti-TNF therapy for degenerative disc disease. 
  • TRPV4 plays an evolutionary conserved role in the transduction of osmotic and mechanical stimuli in live animals. 
  • Talonavicular joint fixation using augmenting naviculocalcaneal screw in modified double hindfoot arthrodesis. 
  • Tensile properties of nondegenerate human lumbar anulus fibrosus. 
  • The "Stressful" Life of Cell Adhesion Molecules: On the Mechanosensitivity of Integrin Adhesome. 
  • The 6 degrees of freedom kinematics of the knee after anterior cruciate ligament deficiency: an in vivo imaging analysis. 
  • The axial injury tolerance of the human foot/ankle complex and the effect of Achilles tension. 
  • The biocompatibility of titanium cardiovascular devices seeded with autologous blood-derived endothelial progenitor cells: EPC-seeded antithrombotic Ti implants. 
  • The biomechanical effect of posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction on knee joint function. Kinematic response to simulated muscle loads. 
  • The biomechanical function of the patellar tendon during in-vivo weight-bearing flexion. 
  • The biphasic poroviscoelastic behavior of articular cartilage: role of the surface zone in governing the compressive behavior. 
  • The contribution of contractile pre-activation to loss of function after a single lengthening contraction. 
  • The coronary pressure-flow determinants left ventricular compliance in dogs. 
  • The deformation behavior and mechanical properties of chondrocytes in articular cartilage. 
  • The deformation behavior and viscoelastic properties of chondrocytes in articular cartilage. 
  • The deformational characteristics of the left ventricle in the conscious dog. 
  • The diastolic mechanical properties of the intact left ventricle. 
  • The dynamic mechanical environment of the chondrocyte: a biphasic finite element model of cell-matrix interactions under cyclic compressive loading. 
  • The effect of autoclave sterilization on endodontic files. 
  • The effect of dynamic mechanical compression on nitric oxide production in the meniscus. 
  • The effect of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy on the prosthesis interface in cementless arthroplasty. Evaluation in a rabbit model. 
  • The effect of fluid shear stress upon cell adhesion to fibronectin-treated surfaces. 
  • The effect of hip stem material modulus on surface strain in human femora. 
  • The effect of increasing distraction on digital motion after external fixation of the wrist. 
  • The effect of muscle architecture on the biomechanical failure properties of skeletal muscle under passive extension. 
  • The effect of posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction on patellofemoral contact pressures in the knee joint under simulated muscle loads. 
  • The effects of ZD6474, an inhibitor of VEGF signaling, on cutaneous wound healing in mice. 
  • The effects of aging and training on skeletal muscle. 
  • The effects of cyclic mechanical strain and tumor necrosis factor alpha on the response of cells of the meniscus. 
  • The effects of matrix compression on proteoglycan metabolism in articular cartilage explants. 
  • The effects of osmotic stress on the viscoelastic and physical properties of articular chondrocytes. 
  • The effects of static and intermittent compression on nitric oxide production in articular cartilage explants. 
  • The force-driven conformations of heparin studied with single molecule force microscopy. 
  • The functional significance of primate mandibular form. 
  • The human mandible: lever or link? 
  • The influence of mechanical compression on the induction of osteoarthritis-related biomarkers in articular cartilage explants. 
  • The influence of oxygen tension on the induction of nitric oxide and prostaglandin E2 by mechanical stress in articular cartilage. 
  • The influence of patient age and bone mineral density on osteotomy fixation stability after hallux valgus surgery: A biomechanical study. 
  • The influence of temperature on red cell deformability. 
  • The influence of thumb metacarpophalangeal joint rotation on the evaluation of ulnar collateral ligament injuries: a biomechanical study in a cadaver model. 
  • The low anterior five-o'clock portal during arthroscopic shoulder surgery performed in the beach-chair position. 
  • The manual muscle examination for rotator cuff strength. An electromyographic investigation. 
  • The mechanical and morphological properties of 6 year-old cranial bone. 
  • The mechanical or metabolic function of secondary osteonal bone in the monkey Macaca fascicularis. 
  • The mechanical properties of the human hip capsule ligaments. 
  • The micromechanical environment of intervertebral disc cells determined by a finite deformation, anisotropic, and biphasic finite element model. 
  • The motion of a single molecule, the lambda-receptor, in the bacterial outer membrane. 
  • The myogenic response in isolated rat cerebrovascular arteries: smooth muscle cell model. 
  • The prediction of stress-relaxation of ligaments and tendons using the quasi-linear viscoelastic model. 
  • The role of F-actin and myosin in epithelial cell rheology. 
  • The role of extracellular matrix elasticity and composition in regulating the nucleus pulposus cell phenotype in the intervertebral disc: a narrative review. 
  • The role of torsion in cervical spine trauma. 
  • The study of wall deformation and flow distribution with transmural pressure by three-dimensional model of thoracic aorta wall. 
  • The viscoelastic behavior of the non-degenerate human lumbar nucleus pulposus in shear. 
  • Thermomechanics of the shape memory effect in polymers for biomedical applications. 
  • Tissue prolapse and stresses in stented coronary arteries: A computer model for multi-layer atherosclerotic plaque. 
  • Torsional strains in the proximal fifth metatarsal: implications for Jones and stress fracture management. 
  • Total internal reflection microscopy and atomic force microscopy (TIRFM-AFM) to study stress transduction mechanisms in endothelial cells. 
  • Transfer of macroscale tissue strain to microscale cell regions in the deformed meniscus. 
  • Transients in sheared granular matter. 
  • Treatment planning and vector analysis of mandibular distraction osteogenesis. 
  • Trunk kinematics and the influence on valgus knee stress in persons with high sacral level myelomeningocele. 
  • Tuning the mechanical properties of graphene oxide paper and its associated polymer nanocomposites by controlling cooperative intersheet hydrogen bonding. 
  • Understanding the elasticity of fibronectin fibrils: unfolding strengths of FN-III and GFP domains measured by single molecule force spectroscopy. 
  • Upregulation of forces and morphogenic asymmetries in dorsal closure during Drosophila development. 
  • Urinary catheter capable of repeated on-demand removal of infectious biofilms via active deformation. 
  • Valgus laxity of the ulnar collateral ligament of the elbow in collegiate athletes. 
  • Variability of arterial wall shear stress, its dependence on vessel diameter and implications for Murray's Law. 
  • Varus external rotation stress test for radiographic detection of deep deltoid ligament disruption with and without syndesmotic disruption: a cadaveric study. 
  • Vibratory loading decreases extracellular matrix and matrix metalloproteinase gene expression in rabbit annulus cells. 
  • Viscoelastic behaviour of human mesenchymal stem cells. 
  • Viscoelastic properties of a synthetic meniscus implant. 
  • Viscoelastic properties of chondrocytes from normal and osteoarthritic human cartilage. 
  • Viscoelastic properties of the cervical spinal ligaments under fast strain-rate deformations. 
  • Viscoelastic properties of zonal articular chondrocytes measured by atomic force microscopy. 
  • Viscosity of passive human neutrophils undergoing small deformations. 
  • WFUMB guidelines and recommendations for clinical use of ultrasound elastography: Part 2: breast. 
  • WFUMB guidelines and recommendations for clinical use of ultrasound elastography: Part 3: liver. 
  • Water permeability and mechanical strength of polyunsaturated lipid bilayers. 
  • Wear and Osteolysis of Highly Crosslinked Polyethylene at 10 to 14 Years: The Effect of Femoral Head Size. 
  • Zonal uniformity in mechanical properties of the chondrocyte pericellular matrix: micropipette aspiration of canine chondrons isolated by cartilage homogenization. 
  • [Finite Element Analysis (FEA) for the structure capacity of proximal femur during falling--(II). The effects of falling configuration and load locations on the structural capacity of the proximal femur]. 
  • [Finite element analysis (FEA) for the structure capacity of proximal femur during falling--(I) FEA model and the failure criteria for the bone]. 
  • beta-Arrestin-biased agonism of the angiotensin receptor induced by mechanical stress. 
  • beta-Catenin protects the epidermis from mechanical stresses. 
  • von Willebrand Factor Abnormalities and Heyde Syndrome in Dysfunctional Heart Valve Prostheses. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Liton, Paloma Borrajo, Associate Professor in Ophthalmology, Pathology
  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
  • Nightingale, Roger W, Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. / Guidant Foundation Professor of Cardiology, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Preminger, Glenn Michael, James F. Glenn, M.D. Professor of Urology, Surgery
  • Zhong, Pei, Professor in the Department of Mechanical Enginnering and Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science