A combination of histological analyses and uniaxial tensile tests to determine the material coefficients of the healthy and atherosclerotic human coronary arteries. Issue 2 (April 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Karimi, Alireza; Navidbakhsh, Mahdi; Shojaei, Ahmad
• Is Part Of: Tissue & cell. Volume 47:Issue 2(2015)
• Page Start: 152
• Page End: 158
• Publication Date: 2015-04
• Subjects: Cytology -- Periodicals; 571.5
• DOI: 10.1016/j.tice.2015.01.004
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0040-8166

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="author-highlights" id="abs0005"> <title id="sect0005">Highlights</title> <sec> <p id="spar0005"> <list id="lis0005"> <list-item id="lsti0005"> <label></label> <p id="par0005">The key role of fiber orientation was explicitly added into a proposed material model.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0010"> <label></label> <p id="par0010">The CNOM was used to determine the material coefficients of human coronary samples.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0015"> <label></label> <p id="par0015">Regardless of loading direction, atherosclerotic arteries were stiffer than healthy ones.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0020"> <label></label> <p id="par0020">The optimized fiber angles were well compared to the experimental histological data.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0025"> <label></label> <p id="par0025">The stored energy function of the healthy arteries was higher than that of atherosclerosis.</p> </list-item> </list> </p> </sec> </abstract>