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BIOMECHANICS AND MODELING IN MECHANOBIOLOGY
Volume 16, Issue 2, Pages 651-666Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10237-016-0843-9
Keywords
Tissue-engineered cartilage; Mathematical modeling; Cyclic unconfined compression; Intrinsic mechanical parameters; Cartilage growth
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- FCT Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia [PTDC/EMSTEC/3263/2014]
- Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalizacao [POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016574]
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In this work a coupled model of solute transport and uptake, cell proliferation, extracellular matrix synthesis and remodeling of mechanical properties accounting for the impact of mechanical loading is presented as an advancement of a previously validated coupled model for free-swelling tissue-engineered cartilage cultures. Tissue-engineering constructs were modeled as biphasic with a linear elastic solid, and relevant intrinsic mechanical stimuli in the constructs were determined by numerical simulation for use as inputs of the coupled model. The mechanical dependent formulations were derived from a calibration and parametrization dataset and validated by comparison of normalized ratios of cell counts, total glycosaminoglycans and collagen after 24-h continuous cyclic unconfined compression from another dataset. The model successfully fit the calibration dataset and predicted the results from the validation dataset with good agreement, with average relative errors up to 3.1 and 4.3 %, respectively. Temporal and spatial patterns determined for other model outputs were consistent with reported studies. The results suggest that the model describes the interaction between the simultaneous factors involved in in vitro tissue-engineered cartilage culture under dynamic loading. This approach could also be attractive for optimization of culture protocols, namely through the application to longer culture times and other types of mechanical stimuli.
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