Journal
MACROMOLECULAR BIOSCIENCE
Volume 19, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/mabi.201800225
Keywords
nanocellulose; nanomechanics; nanometrology; tissue engineering; vascular reconstruction
Funding
- Department of Defense [W81XWH-11-2-0067]
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Surgical clipping and endovascular coiling are well recognized as conventional treatments of Penetrating Brain Injury aneurysms. These clinical approaches show partial success, but often result in thrombus formation and the rupture of aneurysm near arterial walls. The authors address these challenging brain traumas with a unique combination of a highly biocompatible biopolymer hydrogel rendered magnetic in a flexible and resilient membrane coating integrated to a scaffold stent platform at the aneurysm neck orifice, which enhances the revascularization modality. This work focuses on the in situ diagnosis of nano-mechanical behavior of bacterial nanocellulose (BNC) membranes in an aqueous environment used as tissue reconstruction substrates for cerebral aneurysmal neck defects. Nano-mechanical evaluation, performed using instrumented nano-indentation, shows with very low normal loads between 0.01 to 0.5 mN, in the presence of deionized water. Mechanical testing and characterization reveals that the nano-scale response of BNC behaves similar to blood vessel walls with a very low Young ' s modulus, E (0.0025 to 0.04 GPa), and an evident creep effect (26.01 +/- 3.85 nm s(-1)). These results confirm a novel multi-functional membrane using BNC and rendered magnetic with local adhesion of iron-oxide magnetic nanoparticles.
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