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• W2298476073 abstract "BACKGROUNDGenerally hypothesized hemodynamic forces and procedures (surgical and stenting) leading to arteriosclerosis and in-stent restenosis still remain entirely unclear. More so, it is difficult to identify and differentiate which of the procedural injury and/or changes in the local hemodynamic forces due to stent presence influence the onset of undesired clinical events. This difficulty in identifying the main factors leading to in-stent restenosis is compounded as procedural injury and change in hemodynamic stresses usually co-exist in-vivo. To simplify the complexity in identifying the predictors of in-stent restenosis, this thesis focused on the effects of local hemodynamic forces within stented artery on endothelial cells that could lead to in-stent restenosis. Endothelial cells (ECs) play a critical element in the maintenance of healthy artery. Experimental studies of endothelial structure and function have presented evidence that physiological hemodynamic forces promote ECs elongation and atheroprotective endothelial phenotype whilst unphysiological hemodynamic forces promote atheroprone and polygonal shaped endothelial. Based on the above stated evidence, an experimental stent-cells interaction flow bio-reactor system was developed. This system is capable of subjecting ECs cultured in vitro to similar hemodynamic forces present within stented arteries in vivo. Computational models have been developed and used as complementary tool in the quantitative analysis of the mechanical forces being applied to the cultured cells. The computational models were validated to guarantee accuracy of computational results. METHODS AND RESULTSHuman umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) were subjected to steady and realistic physiological left anterior descending artery (LAD) flow waveforms at hydrostatic pressures of 120/80 mmHg and 100 mmHg respectively at timescales of 6, 12 and 24 hours within the stent-cell interaction model. The morphology of cells after exposure to the flow conditions where quantified by using a commercial computational image processing programme built on a MATLAB platform. The cells were also labelled for nuclear factor – kappaB (NFkB), a key regulator of inflammatory response and intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM-1) after being stimulated with 200 U/ml of tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) or exposed to the above stipulated flow and pressure conditions. Cultured HUVECs located anterior and proximal to the stented region of the stent-cell interaction model were observed to elongate and align more to the impinged flow direction with increasing time. These regions where marked by uniform wall shear stress (WSSs), spatial wall shear stress gradient (SWSSGs) and negligible oscillatory shear index (OSIs). This observation is consistent with investigations of the morphological changes of endothelial cells subjected to stresses in vivo and in vitro from other researchers. Cells within the stented region however did not show strong alignment to the fluid flow direction. These regions were marked by non-uniform WSSs, SWSSGs and very high OSIs (0.35 – 0.45). Also HUVECs within the stented region were more polygonal shaped. It was also observed that in the absence of fluid stress, hydrostatic pressure stimulated cell proliferation, elongation, random alignment and a formation of cell multi layering structure. The phenomenon of cell multi layering is however absent when there is presence of fluid shear stress. HUVECs stimulated with TNF-α for 1 hour showed very high NF-kB expression whilst those cells exposed to the stipulated combined stress and pressure conditions for the same duration did not show NF-kB expression. Increased levels of ICAM-1 were observed when cells were stimulated with TNF-α for 6, 12 and 24 hours. However cells exposed to stipulated fluid stress and pressure conditions exhibited a time-dependent selective expression of ICAM-1. CONCLUSIONIt is concluded from results of the experiments performed that different types of combined and/or individual stresses have distinctive effects on HUVECs morphological response and the genes that may be expressed by the cells." @default.
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• W2298476073 title "Quantitative analysis of stenting effects on cellular response" @default.
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