February 11, 2015
Engineering applied to human tissue seminar 1xbet sports betting
The K-State student chapter of theInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society invites you to attend a seminar related to the application of engineering principles to the understanding and remediation of heart 1xbet sports betting disease.
Jane Grande-Allen, professor in the bioengineering department at Rice University, will present "Experimental Frameworks for Analysis of Heart 1xbet sports betting Mechanobiology" at 3:30 p.m. today in 1107Fiedler Hall.
A question-and-answer session will follow this seminar. This event is supported with funding from the 1xbet sports betting Student Governing Association, the College of Engineering, and the electrical and computer engineering department.
Grande-Allen's lecture abstract:
Heart 1xbet sports betting disease has devastating consequences for the health and survival of its victims. 1xbet sports betting disease is widely prevalent in our society, with 1xbet sports betting replacement or repair in almost 100,000 people in the United States and 275,000 people worldwide each year. Myxomatous, or "floppy" disease of the mitral 1xbet sports betting alone affects up to 5 percent of the population, and calcific aortic 1xbet sports betting disease is a major problem associated with aging, obesity, diabetes and smoking. The treatment of these conditions represents substantial health care costs. Despite these statistics, the basic biology of heart valves is sparsely studied and barely understood, and there are no cures for 1xbet sports betting disease other than expensive surgical repairs orreplacements, nor any medications specific for 1xbet sports betting disease. The focus of my research group is to comprehensively characterize and perturb the valvular tissue and cell phenotypes in normal and diseased heart valves, as the first major step in finding the causes of heart 1xbet sports betting diseases, in identifying the early stages and patients at risk, in developing drugs for its treatment, and for ultimately reducing the incidence of the disease in the population. Our research has helped to define the nascent field of 1xbet sports betting mechanobiology and furthermore developed tools such as bioreactors to make these research studies possible. These investigations have covered the distribution and regulation of the extracellular matrix within the 1xbet sports betting and how these are governed by the mechanical loads experienced by the cells within native valves, engineered 1xbet sports betting tissues, or cells grown in 2D cultures. More recently, we have begun to develop platforms to investigate the mechanobiology of valvular endothelial cells and the associated regulation of hemostatic behavior.