Remodeling of the microvasculature: may the blood flow be with you

R Santamaría, M González-Álvarez, R Delgado… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The vasculature ensures optimal delivery of nutrients and oxygen throughout the body, and
to achieve this function it must continually adapt to varying tissue demands. Newly formed …

Modeling reactive hyperemia to Better Understand and assess microvascular function: a review of techniques

A Coccarelli, MD Nelson - Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2023 - Springer
Reactive hyperemia is a well-established technique for the non-invasive evaluation of the
peripheral microcirculatory function, measured as the magnitude of limb re-perfusion after a …

Quantification of macrophage-driven inflammation during myocardial infarction with 18F-LW223, a novel TSPO radiotracer with binding independent of the rs6971 …

MG MacAskill, A Stadulyte, L Williams… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - Soc Nuclear Med
Myocardial infarction (MI) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, and inflammation
is central to tissue response and patient outcomes. The 18-kDa translocator protein (TSPO) …

Capillary pruning couples tissue perfusion and oxygenation with cardiomyocyte maturation in the postnatal mouse heart

R Santamaría, J Cruz-Caballero, P Gkontra… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Removal of poorly perfused capillaries by pruning contributes to remodeling
the microvasculature to optimize oxygen and nutrient delivery. Blood flow drives this process …

Modelling the impact of clot fragmentation on the microcirculation after thrombectomy

WK El-Bouri, A MacGowan, TI Józsa… - PLOS Computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Many ischaemic stroke patients who have a mechanical removal of their clot (thrombectomy)
do not get reperfusion of tissue despite the thrombus being removed. One hypothesis for this …

Modelling the effects of cerebral microthrombi on tissue oxygenation and cell death

Y Xue, WK El-Bouri, TI Józsa, SJ Payne - Journal of Biomechanics, 2021 - Elsevier
Thrombectomy, the mechanical removal of a clot, is the most common way to treat ischaemic
stroke with large vessel occlusions. However, perfusion cannot always be restored after …

Methods of ex vivo analysis of tissue status in vascularized composite allografts

C Ton, S Salehi, S Abasi, JR Aggas, R Liu… - Journal of translational …, 2023 - Springer
Vascularized composite allotransplantation can improve quality of life and restore
functionality. However, the complex tissue composition of vascularized composite allografts …

Review of in silico models of cerebral blood flow in health and pathology

S Payne, TI Józsa, WK El-Bouri - Progress in Biomedical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In this review, we provide a summary of the state-of-the-art in the in silico modelling of
cerebral blood flow (CBF) and its application in in silico clinical trials. CBF plays a key role in …

Approaches to vascular network, blood flow, and metabolite distribution modeling in brain tissue

V Kopylova, S Boronovskiy, Y Nartsissov - Biophysical Reviews, 2023 - Springer
The cardiovascular system plays a key role in the transport of nutrients, ensuring a
continuous supply of all cells of the body with the metabolites necessary for life. The blood …

Multiscale modelling of brain tissue oxygen and glucose dynamics in tortuous capillary during ischaemia-reperfusion

MJM Mokhtarudin, WNWA Naim, A Shabudin… - Applied Mathematical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Brain ischaemia causes reduction of cerebral blood flow, which interrupts the transport of
oxygen and glucose to brain tissue. These transport inefficiencies have also been …