Zirconia implants are appreciated in some clinical indications in light of their aesthetic appearance and good biocompatibility. The aim of this work was to evaluate the performance of a newly developed two-piece zirconia/polyether ketone ketone (PEKK) implant-abutment combination after long-term cyclic loading in a hydrothermal environment, using ...
OBJECTIVES: To assess the in vivo hemodynamic effects on the pressure overloaded right ventricle of RAS-Q® technology, the world's first gas exchanger with a fully integrated compliance. METHODS: In six acute in vivo trials RAS-Q was implanted in sheep between the pulmonary artery and left atrium. Right ventricular pressure overload was induced by ...
Atherosclerosis, as a silent killer, remains one of the most common causes of human morbidity and mortality worldwide due to the lack of efficient strategy for early detection and targeted therapy. In this work, a self-driven bioinspired nanovehicle is developed, which can accurately manage early atherosclerosis with simultaneously multiple-targeti...
This paper presents a low power, high dynamic range (DR), reconfigurable light-to-digital converter (LDC) for photoplethysmogram (PPG), and near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) sensor readouts. The proposed LDC utilizes a current integration and a charge counting operation to directly convert the photocurrent to a digital code, reducing the noise cont...
Atherosclerosis, as a silent killer, remains one of the most common causes of human morbidity and mortality worldwide due to the lack of efficient strategy for early detection and targeted therapy. In this work, a self-driven bioinspired nanovehicle is developed, which can accurately manage early atherosclerosis with simultaneously multiple-targeti...
The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) benchmark nozzle model has been studied extensively both experimentally and computationally. Although considerable efforts have been made on validations of a variety of numerical models against available experimental data, the transitional flow cases are still not fully resolved, especially with regards to d...
In this work, the macrotexture of dense Zn produced by laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) was studied and the mechanical properties for different tensile bar orientations were measured. The compressive strength of LPBF Zn scaffolds with five different unit cells was measured for a relative density of 20-51%. In addition, the response of mesenchymal ste...
The creation of in vitro functional hepatic tissue simulating micro environmental niche of the native liver is a keen area of research due to its demand in bioartificial liver. However, it is still unclear how to maintain benign cell function while achieving the sufficient cell quantity. In this work, we aim to prepare a novel scaffold for the cult...
The creation of in vitro functional hepatic tissue simulating micro environmental niche of the native liver is a keen area of research due to its demand in bioartificial liver. However, it is still unclear how to maintain benign cell function while achieving the sufficient cell quantity. In this work, we aim to prepare a novel scaffold for the cult...
Bridging veins (BVs) drain the blood from the cerebral cortex into dural sinuses. BVs have one end attached to the brain and the other to the superior sagittal sinus (SSS), which is attached to the skull. Relative movement between these two structures can cause BV to rupture producing acute subdural haematoma, a head injury with a mortality rate be...
