Artery Research

Volume 2, Issue 3, August 2008, Pages 113 - 113

P2.29 AN IN SILICO MODEL OF THE ROLE OF ELASTIN ON GEOMETRY AND BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ARTERY IN WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME

Authors
L. Hua, V. Louvet, E. Grenier, F. Gueyffier, B. Kassai
EPICIM/HCL, Centre d’Investigation Clinique 201/INSERM, UCB Lyon I/UMR5558, Lyon, France
Available Online 15 September 2008.
DOI
10.1016/j.artres.2008.08.395How to use a DOI?
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Arteriopathy in Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) patients with elastin gene deletion represents the most important mortality and mobidity causes and seems directly correlated with elastin quantity. There is a need for a comprehensive model that accounts for the quantity of elastin and its role in the geometry and biomechanical properties of artery. Such model might improve our understanding of the pathophysiology and improve innovation in drug development for WBS. We present an in silico model for the adaptation of human carotid artery in response to elastin deficiency. The model is based on the hypothesis that elastin deficiency-induced growth and remodelling occurs via the excessive production of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs), change in collagen engagement, and increased laminar units to ensure that the average stress of lamina unit in the homeostatic state is unchanged under normal condition. Using an elastin-stress driven model and a constituents-based model, which considers the contributions of elastin, collagen, and VSMCs in an explicit form, we illustrate capabilities of the model in predicting the arterial thickness and biomechanical properties with varying elastin quantity before and after elastin restoration. Alternatively, the model has the potential to estimate, indirectly, the fraction of remaining elastin using the values of arterial thickness and mechanical properties. Our model provides a new approach for mathematically assessing the arterial growth and remodelling in human vascular disease with insight into the importance of constituent distributions.

Journal
Artery Research
Volume-Issue
2 - 3
Pages
113 - 113
Publication Date
2008/09/15
ISSN (Online)
1876-4401
ISSN (Print)
1872-9312
DOI
10.1016/j.artres.2008.08.395How to use a DOI?
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license.

Cite this article

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