Blood Vessel Testing – Page 2 – Laboratory of Head Injury and Vessel Biomechanics

Sameer successfully defends his MS thesis

August 1, 2017August 1, 2017

Congratulations to Sameer for successfully defending his MS thesis entitled “Computational Characterization of Vascular Mechanics”! Sameer used computational modeling to explore vessel mechanics in both ring and high-rate testing....

New funding from Henry Jackson Foundation

June 28, 2017June 28, 2017

The lab has received notice of new funding from the Henry Jackson Foundation, through collaboration with the Biotechnology HPC Software Applications Institute, to investigate the high-rate properties of minipig brain and cerebral arteries. Findings will be used to develop of a model of blast brain injury....

Stretch-induced dysfunction paper accepted

September 21, 2016September 21, 2016

Congratulations to Dave and to our collaborator Tony Donato for acceptance of our paper entitled “Cerebrovascular dysfunction following subfailure axial stretch” for publication in the Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials! This paper reports experiments showing that smooth muscle contractile response is altered by sub-failure axial overstretch. This suggests that tissue deformation during...

Cerebral artery development paper accepted

September 20, 2016September 20, 2016

Congratulations to Kevin, Matt, and our collaborators in the Albertine Lab, on the acceptance of our paper entitled “Development of mechanical and failure properties in sheep cerebral arteries” by the Annals of Biomedical Engineering! This research shows dramatic changes in the large deformation response of cerebral arteries between late gestation and adulthood. See publications page for more details....

Dave successfully defends his PhD!

December 18, 2015December 18, 2015

Congrats, Dr. Bell! The title of his dissertation is “Thresholds of Stretch-Induced Injury in Cerebral Arteries.”...

Stewart, Matt, and Ray present at SB3C

July 1, 2015July 1, 2015

Congrats to Stewart, Matt, and Ray for nice presentations at the 2015 Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference at Snowbird, UT, June 17-20, 2015. Stewart and Matt presented posters titled “Behavioral And Inflammatory Consequences Of Cerebrovascual Dysfunction In Primary Blast Injury” and “Alteration And Failure Of Cerebral Artery Internal Elastic Lamina Following Axial Overstretch,” respectively....

Vessel damage paper published

January 28, 2015January 28, 2015

Congrats to Dave and Jake for their nice paper “Subfailure overstretch induces persistent changes in the passive mechanical response of cerebral arteries,” published in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology....

Contract with Henry Jackson Foundation finalized

October 15, 2014October 15, 2014

The lab has finalized a contract with the Henry Jackson Foundation, through collaboration with the Biotechnology HPC Software Applications Institute, to investigate the high-rate properties of rat cerebral arteries. Findings will be used to develop of a model of blast brain injury....

Kevin defends M.S. thesis

October 10, 2014October 10, 2014

Congrats to Kevin for successfully defending his MS thesis entitled “Age-Related Changes in the Mechanical Properties of Arteries”!...

Paper reporting umbilical artery mechanical properties to be published

May 14, 2014May 14, 2014

Congratulations to Kevin for acceptance of his paper entitled Umbilical cord artery mechanical properties at various gestational ages for publication in the American Journal of Perinatology!...