Browsing by Subject "Biomechanics"
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Atomic Force Microscopy Probing of Cancer Cells and Tumor Microenvironment Components
(2016)Cancer cells have different characteristics from normal cells in terms of morphology, cell–cell interactions, cytoskeleton organization, cell growth rates, and cell-extracellular matrix interactions. Although the clarification ...
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Biphasic modeling of brain tumor biomechanics and response to radiation treatment
(2016)Biomechanical forces are central in tumor progression and response to treatment. This becomes more important in brain cancers where tumors are surrounded by tissues with different mechanical properties. Existing mathematical ...
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Computational predictions of the tensile properties of electrospun fibre meshes: Effect of fibre diameter and fibre orientation
(2008)The mechanical properties of biomaterial scaffolds are crucial for their efficacy in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. At the microscopic scale, the scaffold must be sufficiently rigid to support cell adhesion, ...
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Image-based multiscale modeling predicts tissue-level and network-level fiber reorganization in stretched cell-compacted collagen gels
(2009)The mechanical environment plays an important role in cell signaling and tissue homeostasis. Unraveling connections between externally applied loads and the cellular response is often confounded by extracellular matrix ...
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MRI-based morphological modeling, synthesis and characterization of cardiac tissue-mimicking materials
(2012)This study uses standard synthetic methodologies to produce tissue-mimicking materials that match the morphology and emulate the in vivo murine and human cardiac mechanical and imaging characteristics, with dynamic mechanical ...
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Pirfenidone normalizes the tumor microenvironment to improve chemotherapy
(2017)Normalization of the tumor microenvironment by selectively targeting components of the tumor extracellular matrix has been recently proposed to have the potential to decompress tumor blood vessels, increase vessel perfusion ...
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Upper limb motion profile during small to medium time-limited reaching tasks in A VR based robotic training environment
(Affiliation: University of Cyprus, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 75 Kallipoleos Street, Nicosia 1678, CyprusCorrespondence Address: Xydas, E. G.University of Cyprus, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 75 Kallipoleos Street, Nicosia 1678, Cyprusemail: mep4ex1@ucy.ac.cy, 2008)In the area of rehabilitation robotics, many researchers have investigated the therapeutic effects of forces that are proportional to the difference of the user's hand trajectory with an optimum trajectory that is usually ...
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Volume-averaging theory for the study of the mechanics of collagen networks
(2007)A multiscale methodology has been developed for modeling mechanical behavior of collagen fiber networks. The methodology addresses scale separation between the macroscopic, tissue-level scale and the microscopic, fiber-level ...
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Wavelet analysis of motor unit action potentials
(IEEE, 1996)In this study the usefulness of the wavelet transforms (WT) Daubechies with 4 and 20 coefficients, Chui, and Battle-Lemarie in analyzing MUAPs recorded from normal subjects and subjects suffering with motor neuron disease ...