Navid Mohammad Mirzaei1, Pak-Wing Fok1,*
Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.16, Suppl.2, pp. 32-33, 2019, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.07088
Abstract Atherosclerosis is a disease considered to be one of the leading causes of death. Understanding the behavior and dynamics of the vessel wall before and after atherosclerosis has been a motivation for many studies. We investigate this phenomenon as a combination of mechanical deformation of the vessel wall along with cell and chemical dynamics that occur within. We consider the vessel wall as a growing hyperelastic material with three layers; intima,media and adventitia. Each of these layers have a different set of mechanical properties [1]. To describe tissue growth, we use morphoelasticity as the mathematical… More >