Sentence examples for maintain tissue stiffness from inspiring English sources

The biological function of type X collagen is thought to maintain tissue stiffness, regulate chondrocytes metabolism and interact with hypertrophic chondrocytes (Luckman et al., 2003).

Extracellular matrix stiffness synergizes with chemical cues to drive single cell and collective cell behavior in culture and acts to establish and maintain tissue homeostasis in the body.

ECMO maintains tissue oxygenation pending recovery of heart function.

The innate immune system plays an important role in tissue repair and in maintaining tissue homeostasis.

It also maintains tissue donation is a completely routine and legal part of medical practice.

While pericellular material maintained stiffness asymmetry, stiffness magnitudes were reduced.

In an engineered connective tissue model (ECT), p63RhoGEF increased tissue stiffness and its knockdown as well as p63ΔN reduced stiffness.

Unlike strain USE, SWE output is quantitative; expressed as SWV (m/s) or estimated tissue stiffness (kPa).

The speed of wave propagation is proportional to the tissue stiffness and is measured by pulse-echo ultrasound.

At the multicellular scale, tissue stiffness has been shown to affect the cancerous phenotype of cell colonies [27], and the AFM stiffness clamp could be used to study the responses of tissues in microenvironments of changing stiffness.

Finally, we test whether tissue stiffness correlates with force generation capacity.