Findings suggest that slack titin molecules drive muscle disease, potentially through mechanisms shared with other mechanical ...

A team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), led by Jorge Alegre-Cebollada, has developed an ...

However, a comprehensive evaluation of electromechanical models at cellular, tissue, and organ level has yet to be performed ... We quantified the effects of variability in ionic conductance, ...

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"By vertically integrating a porous membrane to decouple fluid channels and tissue chambers, we achieved precise control over interstitial flow and shear stress distribution, enabling diverse vascular ...

Osteocytes in the bone matrix are stimulated by fluid shear forces during ... metabolism at the cellular and tissue levels. Research on the how and where of mechanical stimulation, coupled with ...

Researchers have developed a new ultrasound method that can, for the first time, measure tension in human tissue ... capable of sensing and responding to mechanical stress, adapting their shape ...

Researchers have developed an injectable hydrogel which effectively prevents post-surgical scar tissue adhesions in ... This hydrogel was chosen due to its shear-thinning capabilities -- the ...

Although most of the mechanical properties of human menisci have been characterized, to our knowledge, its dynamic shear properties have never been reported. Moreover, little is known about meniscal ...

Using ultrasound imaging to measure the speed of these waves, the researchers can determine the elasticity of the thyroid tissue ... of shear waves gives us information about mechanical properties ...