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N B Melnikova1,2, A I Svitenkov3, D R Hose4, A G Hoekstra3,5.
Abstract
A three-dimensional cell-based mechanical model of coronary artery tunica media is proposed. The model is composed of spherical cells forming a hexagonal close-packed lattice. Tissue anisotropy is taken into account by varying interaction forces with the direction of intercellular connection. Several cell-centre interaction potentials for repulsion and attraction are considered, including the Hertz contact model and its neo-Hookean extension, the Johnson-Kendall-Roberts model of adhesive contact, and a wormlike chain model. The model is validated against data from in vitro uni-axial tension tests performed on dissected strips of tunica media. The wormlike chain potential in combination with the neo-Hookean Hertz contact model produces stress-stretch curves which represent the experimental data very well.Entities:
Keywords: cell-based model; in silico stretch tests; mechanics; smooth muscle cell; tunica media
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28679664 PMCID: PMC5550961 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0028
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J R Soc Interface ISSN: 1742-5662 Impact factor: 4.118