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A Modified Parallel Plate Flow Chamber to Study Local Endothelial Response to Recirculating Disturbed Flow
JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME, v 142(4)
01 Apr 2020
PMID: 31536122
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Abstract
Atherosclerosis develops at arterial sites where endothelial cells (ECs) are exposed to low time-averaged shear stress, in particular in regions of recirculating disturbed flow. To understand how hemodynamics contributes to EC dysfunction in atheroma development, an in vitro parallel plate flow chamber gasket was modified with protruding baffles to produce large recirculating flow regions. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) predicted that more than 60% of the flow surface area was below the 12 dynes/cm(2) atheroprotective threshold. Bovine aortic endothelial cells (BAECs) were then seeded in the parallel plate flow chamber with either the standard laminar or the new disturbed flow gasket (DFG) and exposed to flow for 36h. Cell morphology, nitric oxide (NO), proliferation, permeability, and monocyte adhesion were assessed by phase contrast and confocal microscopy. BAEC exposed to 20 dynes/cm(2) shear stress in the laminar flow device aligned and elongated in the flow direction while increasing nitric oxide, decreasing permeability, and maintaining low proliferation and monocyte adhesion. BAEC in the recirculating flow and low shear stress disturbed flow device regions did not elongate or align, produced less nitric oxide, and showed higher proliferation, permeability, and monocyte adhesion than cells in the laminar flow device. However, cells in disturbed flow device regions exposed to atheroprotective shear stress did not consistently align or decrease permeability, and these cells demonstrated low nitric oxide levels. The new parallel plate DFG provides a means to study recirculating flow, highlighting the complex relationship between hemodynamics and endothelial function.
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- Title
- A Modified Parallel Plate Flow Chamber to Study Local Endothelial Response to Recirculating Disturbed Flow
- Publication Details
- JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME, v 142(4)
- Publisher
- ASME; NEW YORK
- Grant note
- National Institute of Health (NIH) grant DK102107-01 awarded to ASMC (Funder ID: 10.13039/100000009).; U.S. Department of Education (DOE) Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Research Enterprise (iCare) awarded to JS (Funder ID: 10.13039/100000138).
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Drexel University
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000524911400003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85106403898
- Other Identifier
- 991021860672104721
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