Mechano-chemo-biological computational models for arteries in health, disease and healing

From tissue remodelling to drug-eluting devices

authored by
Michele Marino, Giuseppe Vairo, Peter Wriggers
Abstract

This review aims to highlight urgent priorities for the computational biomechanics community in the framework of mechano-chemo-biological models. Recent approaches, promising directions and open challenges on the computational modelling of arterial tissues in health and disease are introduced and investigated, together with in silico approaches for the analysis of drug-eluting stents that promote pharmacological-induced healing. The paper addresses a number of chemo-biological phenomena that are generally neglected in biomechanical engineering models but are most likely instrumental for the onset and the progression of arterial diseases. An interdisciplinary effort is thus encouraged for providing the tools for an effective in silico insight into medical problems. An integrated mechano-chemo-biological perspective is believed to be a fundamental missing piece for crossing the bridge between computational engineering and life sciences, and for bringing computational biome-chanics into medical research and clinical practice.

Organisation(s)
Institute of Continuum Mechanics
External Organisation(s)
Tor Vergata University of Rome
Type
Review article
Journal
Current Pharmaceutical Design
Volume
27
Pages
1904-1917
No. of pages
14
ISSN
1381-6128
Publication date
05.2021
Publication status
Published
Peer reviewed
Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Pharmacology, Drug Discovery
Electronic version(s)
https://doi.org/10.2174/1381612826666200728145752 (Access: Closed)
 

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