Ngoepe, M;
Passos, A;
Balabani, S;
King, J;
Lynn, A;
Moodley, J;
Swanson, L;
... Franz, T; + view all
(2019)
A Preliminary Computational Investigation Into the Flow of PEG in Rat Myocardial Tissue for Regenerative Therapy.
Frontiers In Cardiovascular Medicine
, 6
, Article 104. 10.3389/fcvm.2019.00104.
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Abstract
Myocardial infarction (MI), a type of cardiovascular disease, affects a significant proportion of people around the world. Traditionally, non-communicable chronic diseases were largely associated with aging populations in higher income countries. It is now evident that low- to middle-income countries are also affected and in these settings, younger individuals are at high risk. Currently, interventions for MI prolong the time to heart failure. Regenerative medicine and stem cell therapy have the potential to mitigate the effects of MI and to significantly improve the quality of life for patients. The main drawback with these therapies is that many of the injected cells are lost due to the vigorous motion of the heart. Great effort has been directed toward the development of scaffolds which can be injected alongside stem cells, in an attempt to improve retention and cell engraftment. In some cases, the scaffold alone has been seen to improve heart function. This study focuses on a synthetic polyethylene glycol (PEG) based hydrogel which is injected into the heart to improve left ventricular function following MI. Many studies in literature characterize PEG as a Newtonian fluid within a specified shear rate range, on the macroscale. The aim of the study is to characterize the flow of a 20 kDa PEG on the microscale, where the behavior is likely to deviate from macroscale flow patterns. Micro particle image velocimetry (μPIV) is used to observe flow behavior in microchannels, representing the gaps in myocardial tissue. The fluid exhibits non-Newtonian, shear-thinning behavior at this scale. Idealized two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models of PEG flow in microchannels are then developed and validated using the μPIV study. The validated computational model is applied to a realistic, microscopy-derived myocardial tissue model. From the realistic tissue reconstruction, it is evident that the myocardial flow region plays an important role in the distribution of PEG, and therefore, in the retention of material.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | A Preliminary Computational Investigation Into the Flow of PEG in Rat Myocardial Tissue for Regenerative Therapy |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fcvm.2019.00104 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2019.00104 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | myocardial infarction, injectate therapy, polyethylene glycol hydrogel, particle image velocimetry, computational fluid dynamics, retention |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Mechanical Engineering |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10090243 |
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