Stretch-induced dysfunction paper accepted

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...

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Cerebral 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....

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Talk 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...

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Stewart, 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....

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