经编人造血管顺应性的实验研究

对EP系列经编人造血管的径向顺应性和纵向顺应性进行了体外测试和研究,并分析了不同制备工艺对经编人造血管的径向顺应性的影响。实验结果表明,紧密化处理和波纹化热定性对人造血管的径向顺应性影响较大。测试压力段的选择对人造血管成品的纵向顺应性有较大的关系。     

一种带有旋动流引导器的新型小口径人造血管流场的数值模拟

大尺寸人造血管的临床应用已取得很大成功,但用于冠状动脉等旁路搭桥的小口径人造血管的急性血栓堵塞问题,至今仍未解决．因此,本文设计了一种可装于小口径人造血管前的旋流导引器,以期使进入人造血管内的血流产生旋动．对带有旋流导引器的人造血管内的血流流场进行了计算机数值模拟分析,并与常规人造血管内的血流流场进行了比较．数值模拟分析揭示,这种旋流导引器的确能使人造血管内的血流产生旋动,从而改变人造血管内的血流流场和流速分布,使近壁面血液的流速和壁面剪切应力得到极大提高．本研究认为,血液在人造血管壁面的流速和壁面剪切应力的提高,可抑制小口径人造血管内急性血栓的形成,从而达到提高小口径人造血管的通畅率的目的．     

两种机织型人造血管管壁的均匀特性研究

针对一些纺织型人造血管管壁的临床选择性破损特征,本文报告两种机织型人造血管管壁的均匀特性研究。通过对其整体、纱线、纤维三个层次的纺织结构性能以及相应的生物力学性能的研究,揭示此类人造血管不同的管壁纺织结构对其生物力学性能整体均匀性的影响,并由此从纺织结构的角度预测该类人造血管在临床应用中可能导致提前降解或破损的原因。研究结果提示在新型人造血管的设计中,要避免此类纺织结构的弱节与不均匀性。     

人造血管内皮化旋转培养装置的设计及制作

人造血管内皮化研究需在人造血管内壁均匀粘附上一层内皮细胞。以往静态培养,细胞难以在其内壁均匀粘附生长,效果不理想。我们设计了一种内皮化人造血管旋转培养装置,很好地解决了上述问题。该装置体积小,整体可以放入二氧化碳培养箱,因而可维持细胞的生长环境不受影响。装置由三个部分组成:①旋转驱动器(蠕动泵)。②人造血管内皮细胞     

仿生技术构建小口径人造血管

目的：研究以改性猪小肠粘膜下层组织(SIS)为支架,利用仿生技术构建小口径人造血管的可行性。方法：自犬隐动脉分离出血管内皮细胞和平滑肌细胞,与胶原蛋白凝胶均匀混合,分别种植于改性SIS膜表面,制成3 mm 仿生三层人造血管为实验组;制成单层人造血管为对照组,分别植入修复15例犬双侧股动脉缺损,术后进行彩超、组织学检测和电镜检测鉴定。结果：植入12周,14个仿生人造血管保持通畅,通畅率93.3%,有血管样生物结构形成,管腔内壁有完整的内皮覆盖,管壁中层见大量平滑肌细胞;对照组通畅率60%,有少许内皮细胞覆盖。结论：仿生小口径人造血管具有良好的血液相容性,并能在体内保持良好通畅性, 修复动脉缺损效果满意。     

新型人造血管研制成功

近日,南京鼓楼医院研制成功血管腔内支架人造血管。这种新型人造血管采用钛镍记忆合金网状支架,内衬高分子硅胶类薄膜制成,通过输送导管导人移植于人体血管病变部位,能够有效地治疗动脉瘤、动静脉瘘、动脉闭塞、静脉闭塞以及大血管损伤等血管疾病。新型人造血管研制成功     

海南粗榧内生真菌S15的细胞毒活性产物

对海南粗榧(Cephalotaxus hainanensis Li)内生真菌S15次生代谢产物进行了研究。用多种柱色谱技术从S15的发酵液中分离得到2个化合物,根据波谱数据和理化性质将其鉴定为乙酰基细胞松弛素D(1)和细胞松弛素D(2),对其进行生物活性测试,发现2种细胞松弛素对肿瘤细胞SGC-7901有强细胞毒活性。     

人造血管

美国生物工程技术人员培植出一种人造血管 ,其比真正的血管坚韧 2 0倍 ,而且完全由人体细胞长成 ,表现出真正的人体组织的外观、功能和感觉 ,适用于那些需要做冠状动脉搭桥手术的病人。用来制造人造血管的细胞是从病人腿部的血管中提取的 ,然后细胞被放进模拟人体环境的生物反应器中生长 ,这样 ,皮肤细胞被改造成血管细胞。由病人自身细胞长成的血管有很多优点 :它不可能出现排异反应 ,血管周围也不会形成疤痕。因此 ,医生可以培植出更细小更精确的血管 ,和真正的血管相吻合 ,并且能改善血液的流动方式。人造血管…     

国产真丝涤纶人造血管的动物应用研究

目的：探讨国产真丝涤纶人造血管动物应用的可行性。方法：以真丝涤纶人造血管行犬的腹主动脉移植。结果：移植后１个月血管腔内表面形成不完善的内膜,外膜纤维组织明显增生;移植后３个月血管腔内表面完全内皮化,外膜部分肉芽组织胶原化;半年至１年内皮细胞排列更加整齐有序,吻合口轻度内膜增生,但无狭窄,外周为致密的纤维组织。结论：真丝涤纶人造血管作为新一代血管代用品是可行的,但其远期通畅率是有待进一步观察。     

人造血管移植物自然内皮化的研究

人造血管移植作为自体血管代用品已被广泛使用了解内皮细胞的功能,来源,血管内皮化的过程,形成机理及影响内皮化的因素,对防治血栓形成,内膜增生,维持移植血管通畅率有重要意义。     

Small-calibre vascular grafting into the rat abdominal aorta with biodegradable prostheses

130 Male Wistar rats, 2-3 months old and weighing 250-350 g were operated on to implant biodegradable small-calibre vascular prostheses (length 10 mm; internal diameter 1.5 mm) in their infrarenal abdominal aorta. The mean operation time was 40 min, the mean aortic cross-clamping time 25 min. The early patency rate was 100%, the late patency rate was 97.7%, and the operative mortality was 3.1%. Microscopical examination of the biodegradable prostheses from 1 h up to 1 year after implantation demonstrated reproducible morphological results; in these prostheses a new arterial wall regenerated which had a structure very similar to the normal arterial wall. It was concluded that the rat is an appropriate experimental laboratory animal for testing new types of small-calibre vascular prostheses.     

Biomechanical adaptation of porcine carotid vascular smooth muscle to hypo and hypertension in vitro

Previous research in arterial remodeling in response to changes in blood pressure seldom included both hyper- and hypotension. To compare the effects of low and high pressure on arterial remodeling and vascular smooth muscle tone and performance, we have utilized an in vitro model. Porcine carotid arteries were cultured for 3 days at 30 and 170mmHg and compared to controls cultured at 100mmHg for 1 and 3 days. On the first and last day of culture, pressure-diameter and pressure-wall thickness curves were measured under normal smooth muscle tone using a high-resolution ultrasonic device. Last-day experiments included measurements where vascular smooth muscle was contracted or totally relaxed. From the data wall cross-sectional area, Hudetz elastic modulus and a contraction index related to the diameter reduction under normal smooth muscle tone were calculated. We found that although wall cross-sectional area (indicating wall mass) did not change much, Hudetz elastic modulus was significantly reduced in the 3-day hypotension group. Inspection of the wall contraction index suggests that this is due to a reduction in the vascular smooth muscle tone. Further, the peak of contraction index was found to be shifted to higher pressures in the 3-day 170mmHg group. We conclude that vascular smooth muscle performance adapts to both hypo- and hypertension at short time scales and can alter the biomechanics of the vascular wall in vitro.     

Linked opening angle and histological and mechanical aspects of the proximal pulmonary arteries of healthy and pulmonary hypertensive rats and calves

Understanding how arterial remodeling changes the mechanical behavior of pulmonary arteries (PAs) is important to the evaluation of pulmonary vascular function. Early and current efforts have focused on the arteries' histological changes, their mechanical properties under in vitro mechanical testing, and their zero-stress and no-load states. However, the linkage between the histology and mechanical behavior is still not well understood. To explore this linkage, we investigated the geometry, residual stretch, and histology of proximal PAs in both adult rat and neonatal calf hypoxic models of pulmonary hypertension (PH), compared their changes due to chronic hypoxia across species, and proposed a two-layer mechanical model of artery to relate the opening angle to the stiffness ratio of the PA outer to inner layer. We found that the proximal PA remodeling in calves was quite different from that in rats. In rats, the arterial wall thickness, inner diameter, and outer layer thickness fraction all increased dramatically in PH and the opening angle decreased significantly, whereas in calves, only the arterial wall thickness increased in PH. The proposed model predicted that the stiffness ratio of the calf proximal PAs changed very little from control to hypertensive group, while the decrease of opening angle in rat proximal PAs in response to chronic hypoxia was approximately linear to the increase of the stiffness ratio. We conclude that the arterial remodeling in rat and calf proximal PAs is different and the change of opening angle can be linked to the change of the arterial histological structure and mechanics.     

Elasticity changes in the large arteries of human limbs in response to cycle ergometry performed with upper and lower limbs

At rest and after cycle ergometry the elastic properties of the large arteries of limbs of healthy men were examined using an original non-invasive quantitative oscillometric method. It has been shown that in response to muscle work performed with the legs there is a decrease of the effective inner radius, and an increase of the characteristic impedance modulus and bulk modulus and of the elastic resistance of the intact and relaxed wall in the large arteries in the upper limbs. All these changes testify to an increase of vascular tension in the upper limbs. In response to work performed with the hands, there is an increase of the effective inner radius of large arteries of the upper limbs, a large increase of the pulsatile blood volume increment of the intact vessels and a decrease of the characteristic impedance modulus, of the bulk modulus and of the elastic resistance of the intact arterial wall. These changes indicate a decrease of the vascular tension of these arteries. In response to work performed either with the legs or with the hands a decrease of the effective inner radius of large arteries and an increase of the elastic resistance of the relaxed arterial wall were observed in the lower limbs, all these changes indicating relatively small changes in tone of these vessels. It is concluded that the wall tension of large arteries supplying blood to the muscles of non-working limbs is increased. Vascular tension changes in the arteries in working limbs are accounted for by the superimposition of centrally originating vasoconstriction with local vasodilatation, which also affects large arteries.     

Microinjection Technique: Routine System for Characterization of Microcapillaries by Bubble Pressure Measurement

Five tubing types with different outer and inner diameter dimensions were used to pull injection capillaries with different openings. The correlation between threshold bubble pressure and tip inner and outer diameter was established for each type of tubing. Statistical analysis revealed that the bubble pressure is an accurate measure for the tip inner diameter independent of the tubing used to pull the capillary. A graph directly relating the tip inner diameter to the threshold bubble pressure is presented. The tip outer diameter could not be related to the bubble pressure for tubings of different size. This diameter depends on the wall thickness of the tubing and the puller configuration. Data on the inner tip diameter were used to test the relationship between volume released from injection capillaries and their tip radius. It was found that the volume increases with the fourth power of the radius. Strategies for optimizing the injection capillary are discussed.     

Characterization of arterial wall mechanical behavior and stresses from human clinical data

This paper demonstrates the feasibility of material identification and wall stress computation for human common carotid arteries based on non-invasive in vivo clinical data: dynamical intraluminal pressure measured by applanation tonometry, and medial diameter and intimal-medial thickness measured by high-resolution ultrasound echotracking. The mechanical behavior was quantified assuming an axially pre-stretched, thick-walled, cylindrical artery subjected to dynamical blood pressure and perivascular constraints. The wall was further assumed to be three-dimensional and to consist of a nonlinear, hyperelastic, anisotropic, incompressible material with smooth muscle activity and residual stresses. Mechanical contributions by individual constituents-an elastin-dominated matrix, collagen fibers, and vascular smooth muscle-were accounted for using a previously proposed microstructurally motivated constitutive relation. The in vivo boundary value problem was solved semi-analytically to compute the inner pressure during a mean cardiac cycle. Using a nonlinear least-squares method, optimal model parameters were determined by minimizing differences between computed and measured inner pressures over a mean cardiac cycle. The fit-to-data from two healthy patients was very good and the predicted radial, circumferential, and axial stretch and stress fields were sensible. Hence, the proposed approach was able to identify complex geometric and material parameters directly from non-invasive in vivo human data.     

Mechanisms of blood flow-induced vascular enlargement

Chronic changes in wall shear stress lead to vascular remodeling, characterized by increased vascular wall diameter and thickness, to restore wall shear stress values to baseline. Release of nitric oxide from endothelial cells exposed to excessive shear is a fundamental step in the remodeling process, and potentially triggers a cascade of events, including growth factor induction and matrix metalloproteinase activation, that together contribute to restructuralization of the vessel wall. Understanding these processes could help explain how changes in blood vessel wall structure occur in the context of atherosclerosis or aortic aneurisms.     

Anatomical adaptations of Astragalus gombiformis Pomel. under drought stress

The present study was designed to study the effect of drought on root, stem and leaf anatomy of Astragalus gombiformis Pomel. Several root, stem and leaf anatomical parameters (cross section diameter, cortex, root cortical cells, pith, leaf lamina and mesophyll thickness) were reduced under moderate to severe water deficit (20–30 days of withheld irrigation). The stele/cross section root ratio increased under moderate water deficit. The root’s and stems vascular systems showed reduced xylem vessel diameter and increased wall thickness under water deficit. In addition, the root xylem vessel density was increased in these drought conditions while it was unchanged in the stems. The stomata density was increased under prolonged drought conditions whereas the stomata size was untouched. The leaf vascular system showed reduced xylem and phloem tissue thickness in the main vein under moderate to severe water deficit. However, in the lamina the vascular tissue and the distance between vascular bundle were unaffected. Our findings suggest a complex network of anatomical adaptations such as a reduced vessel size with increased wall thickness, lesser cortical and mesophyll parenchyma formation and increased stomata density. These proprieties are required for the maintenance of water potential and energy storage under water stress which can improve the resistance of A. gombiformis to survive in arid areas.     

Permanently increased conductance of the murine uterine arcade after the first pregnancy

Mechanical forces due to increased blood flow during the first pregnancy might induce a permanently higher conductance of the uterine arcade. Number of endothelial and smooth muscle cells, cross-sectional area and wall thickness of the uterine artery were measured in nulliparous mice (n = 11) and until the 93rd day after parturition in primiparous mice (n = 44). Inner diameter and wall area were calculated. Three months after the first pregnancy, uterine artery wall thickness was not altered compared to nulliparous mice. In contrast, inner diameter increased 1.6-fold, wall area 1.5-fold and the numbers of endothelial and smooth muscle cells increased 1.5 times. These changes were completely stable during the whole observation period. The increased blood flow during the first pregnancy might be a mandatory mechanical stimulus for uterine arcade maturation. This physiological maturation process could result in abortion explaining the higher prevalence of unexplained pregnancy losses in primiparous women.