Tissue engineering is a novel research field that covers a wide range of applications, which consist in developing biological substitutes capable to replace or repair injured or damaged tissues. In the top-down approa...
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Tissue engineering is a novel research field that covers a wide range of applications, which consist in developing biological substitutes capable to replace or repair injured or damaged tissues. In the top-down approa...
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Tissue engineering is a novel research field that covers a wide range of applications, which consist in developing biological substitutes capable to replace or repair injured or damaged tissues. In the top-down approach to tissue engineering, the biological substitutes are obtained by culturing living cells on scaffolds made of biocompatible and biodegradable materials. Cells are harvested from the patient, expanded in Petri dishes, and seeded onto scaffolds. Tissue engineering research is motivated by transplantable organ shortage. Mathematical and computational methods are used for modeling and designing scaffolds and for simulating in vivo and in vitro morphogenesis. To simulate how scaffolds are populated by cells, we developed three-dimensional computational models of cubic pore scaffolds for studying the energetic and geometric conditions that lead to a uniform and rapid cell seeding. We characterized the evolution of multicellular systems, taking into consideration the differential adhesion hypothesis, which states that cells move in their environment until they reach the minimum energy configuration of the system. Based on the Metropolis Monte Carlo method, the evolution of the cells' center of mass is analyzed, providing information about the distribution of cells in the scaffold. We also monitored the fraction of cells attached to the scaffold.
Tissue engineering is a revolutionary domain which offers an alternative to traditional transplants, through in vitro synthesis of tissue constructs. Tissue constructs are obtained by harvesting cells extracted from p...
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(纸本)9781618040008
Tissue engineering is a revolutionary domain which offers an alternative to traditional transplants, through in vitro synthesis of tissue constructs. Tissue constructs are obtained by harvesting cells extracted from patients, on a porous scaffold. The quality of the tissue construct and the rapidity with which it is obtained are two very important factors for clinical applications. The paper presents the evolution of a spherical multicellular aggregate located on the surface of a porous scaffold, observing the conditions that lead to an uniform and rapid distribution of cells in the scaffold. The evolution of the multicellular system was simulated using an algorithm based on the Metropolis Monte Carlo method, considering that cells tend to form a large number of connections with their neighbours (other cells or substrate). Based on different configurations obtained after running a number of Monte Carlo steps, the influence of the cell-cell interaction energy, the cellsubstrate interaction energy as well as the influence of the scaffold's geometry on the distribution of cells in the scaffold is studied. An analysis is made on the evolution of the cells' centre of mass , as well as on the evolution of the concentration of cells remained in the culture medium, after running a number of Monte Carlo steps.
Tissue engineering is a part of regenerative medicine that handles in vitro creation of biological tissue substitutes which may repair or substitute injured or diseased parts of the body. In order to create tissue str...
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Tissue engineering is a part of regenerative medicine that handles in vitro creation of biological tissue substitutes which may repair or substitute injured or diseased parts of the body. In order to create tissue str...
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(纸本)9781424474325;9781424474332
Tissue engineering is a part of regenerative medicine that handles in vitro creation of biological tissue substitutes which may repair or substitute injured or diseased parts of the body. In order to create tissue structures, biocompatible materials with a porous structure (scaffolds) are used as support for cells. The paper presents the stages of development and the software application that results, used as support for the study of cell seeding of a three-dimensional scaffold. The application uses an algorithm based on the Metropolis Monte Carlo method. The program was developed by using the Visual *** programming environment. Ideally, cell seeding should be fast and should achieve an uniform distribution of the cell population in the scaffold. In a first stage, the program creates the initial configuration of the system consisting of a cell suspension placed in the neighborhood of a scaffold immersed in cell culture medium. Starting from this configuration, using our software application the movement of the cells in suspension is studied as well as their potential of getting attached to the biomaterial.
Graphical models applying partial coherence to multivariate time series are a powerful tool to distinguish direct and indirect interdependencies in multivariate linear systems. We carry over the concept of graphical m...
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Graphical models applying partial coherence to multivariate time series are a powerful tool to distinguish direct and indirect interdependencies in multivariate linear systems. We carry over the concept of graphical models and partialization analysis to phase signals of nonlinear synchronizing systems. This procedure leads to the partial phase synchronization index which generalizes a bivariate phase synchronization index to the multivariate case and reveals the coupling structure in multivariate synchronizing systems by differentiating direct and indirect interactions. This ensures that no false positive conclusions are drawn concerning the interaction structure in multivariate synchronizing systems. By application to the paradigmatic model of a coupled chaotic Roessler system, the power of the partial phase synchronization index is demonstrated.
The paper is devoted to the problem of modeling demand for inventory management of slow-moving items in the case of reporting errors. It is proposed a generalization of the beta-binomial demand model that takes into a...
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The paper is devoted to the problem of modeling demand for inventory management of slow-moving items in the case of reporting errors. It is proposed a generalization of the beta-binomial demand model that takes into account possible reporting errors in the learning sample. For the new model, there are developed identification and forecasting algorithms that provide consistent estimators of the model parameters and mean square optimal forecasts. The efficiency of the proposed approach is illustrated by an application example for slow-moving car parts.
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