Modelling and simulation in mechanobiology play an increasingly important role to unravel
the complex mechanisms that allow resident cells to sense and respond to mechanical cues …

Background Pericardial patches are often used for repair of congenital cardiac defects. The
aim of this study was to describe our initial experience with the use of equine pericardium …

We demonstrate the ability of nondestructive optical imaging techniques such as second-
harmonic generation (SHG), two-photon fluorescence (TPF), fluorescence lifetime imaging …

Objectives Bovine pericardium-native, fixed as well as decellularized-is one of the most
common implant materials in modern cardiovascular surgery. Although used in everyday …

Background and objective Extracting the mechanical behaviors of bioprosthetic aortic valve
leaflets is necessary for the appropriate design and manufacture of the prosthetic valves …

Background In order to obtain the smaller delivery diameter, porcine pericardium had been
used as a substitute material of bovine pericardium for the leaflet materials of transcatheter …

Tissue cross-linking represents an important and often used technique to enhance the
mechanical properties of biomaterials. For the first time, we investigated biochemical and …

Second‐harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy provides a high‐resolution label‐free
approach for noninvasively detecting collagen organization and its pathological alterations …

Decellularized pericardial tissue is a strong candidate for a TEHV material as ECM is
present to guide cellular infiltration and fixed porcine and bovine pericardial tissue have …

Background Porcine aortic valve (PAV) and bovine aortic valve (BAV) are commonly used in
aortic valve replacement (AVR) surgeries. A detailed comparison for their hemodynamic and …