The auditory system is particularly vulnerable to blast injury due to the ear's role as a highly sensitive pressure transducer. Over the past several decades, studies have used a variety of …
CW Barney, CE Dougan, KR McLeod… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Cavitation is the sudden, unstable expansion of a void or bubble within a liquid or solid subjected to a negative hydrostatic stress. Cavitation rheology is a field emerging from the …
H Chahsetareh, F Yazdian… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Exosomes are among the most effective therapeutic tools for tissue engineering. This study demonstrates that a 3D composite scaffold containing exosomes can promote regeneration …
Hearing is an extremely complex phenomenon, involving a large number of interrelated variables that are difficult to measure in vivo. In order to investigate such process under …
The perforation characteristics and fracture-related mechanical properties of the tympanic membrane (TM) greatly affect surgical procedures like myringotomy and tympanostomy …
Tympanic membrane perforations are due to common otologic problems. The current treatments to heal tympanic membrane perforation, such as myringoplasty, have some …
S Jiang, C Dai, RZ Gan - Hearing Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Hearing damage is one of the most frequently observed injuries in Service members and Veterans even though hearing protection devices (HPDs, eg earplugs) have been …
J Liang, KD Smith, RZ Gan, H Lu - Journal of the mechanical behavior of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The rupture of the tympanic membrane (TM) is one of the major indicators for blast injuries due to the vulnerability of TM under exposure to blast overpressure. The mechanical …
WG Engles, X Wang, RZ Gan - Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2017 - Springer
Blast overpressure causes dynamic damage to middle ear components, and tympanic membrane (TM) rupture is the most frequent middle ear injury. However, it is unclear how …