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...
Continue readingCerebral artery development paper accepted
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....
Continue readingWill Anderl awarded UROP for Fall 2016
Congratulations to Will for being selected for participation in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program for the Fall 2016 semester! As part of this research, he will investigate cerebral vessel wall collagen fiber damage in traumatic brain injury....
Continue readingTalk at Summer Bioengineering Meeting
Congratulations to Matt, Justin, and Ray for presentation of their work at the SB3C Conference in National Harbor, MD, on 6/30/2016. The talk reporting their work was entitled “Direction-Dependent Collagen Disruption in Overstretched Cerebral Arteries” and reports further quantification of collagen damage resulting from circumferential overstretch. Findings were based on the use of collagen...
Continue readingOfficially Dr. Bell
Congratulations, Dave!...
Continue readingDave successfully defends his PhD!
Congrats, Dr. Bell! The title of his dissertation is “Thresholds of Stretch-Induced Injury in Cerebral Arteries.”...
Continue readingMatt defends his PhD proposal!
Congrats to Matt for successfully defending his PhD proposal!...
Continue readingStewart gives podium at BMES
Congrats to Stewart on being elected to give a podium presentation the at BMES Annual Meeting in Tampa, FL, on Oct 7-10. The title of his talk is “Behavioral and Inflammatory Consequences of Cerebrovascular Dysfunction in Primary Blast Injury.”...
Continue readingStewart, Matt, and Ray present at SB3C
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....
Continue readingMatt wins 2nd place speaker award at UBEC
Congratulations to Matt for his nice talk (2nd place award) at the Utah Bioengineering Conference on Jan 31. The title of his talk was “Cerebrovascular damage in TBI: a focus on passive constituents.”...
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