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ArticleAnnals of biomedical engineering2011

MEMS thermal sensors to detect changes in heat transfer in the pre-atherosclerotic regions of fat-fed New Zealand white rabbits.

Fei Yu, Lisong Ai, Wangde Dai, Nora Rozengurt, Hongyu Yu, Tzung K Hsiai

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Article in Annals of biomedical engineering, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Fei YuDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, School of Engineering & School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1111, USA.
Lisong Ai
Wangde Dai
Nora Rozengurt
Hongyu Yu
Tzung K Hsiai

Funding

Linking Spatial Variations Shear Stress-Oxidative StressR01HL083015 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI HSIAI, TZUNG K · 2006 to 2015
$3.9M
Electronica Impedance to Access Metabolically Active PlaqueR01HL118650 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI HSIAI, TZUNG K · 2014 to 2022
$3.3M
Micro-Sensors to Study Electrical and Mechanical Coupling of Injured MyocardiumR01HL111437 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI HSIAI, TZUNG K, XU, XIAOLEI · 2012 to 2020
$3.1M
Shear Stress and Mechnaically Unstable PlaqueR21HL091302 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI HSIAI, TZUNG K · 2009 to 2010
$432k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL083015NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL111437NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL118650NHLBI NIH HHS R21 HL091302PHS HHS NHLBI HL091302PHS HHS NHLBI HL 83015
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Abstract

Real-time detection of pre-atherosclerotic regions remains an unmet clinical challenge. We previously demonstrated the application of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) to detect changes in convective heat transfer in terms of sensor output voltages in the zone of flow reversal in an in vitro stenotic model. We hereby demonstrated changes in sensor output voltages in the pre-atherosclerotic regions in the New Zealand White rabbits fed on hypercholesterolemic diet (HD). After 8 weeks, we observed that mean output voltages (V(ave)) were similar in the distal aortic arch, thoracic, and abdominal aortas in the normal standard diet (ND) group, consistent with an absence of atherosclerosis. In HD group, V(ave) increased in the distal aortic arch (HD: V(ave) = 1.05 ± 0.04 V; ND: V(ave) = 0.12 ± 0.01 V, n = 3, p < 0.05) and in the thoracic aortas (HD: V(ave) = 0.72 ± 0.06 V; ND: V(ave) = 0.13 ± 0.024 V, n = 3, p < 0.05), consistent with the histological presence of pre-atherosclerosis. Despite HD diet, V (ave) magnitudes were similar to ND group in the abdominal aortas (HD: V(ave) = 0.14 ± 0.003 V; ND: V(ave) = 0.14 ± 0.004 V, n = 3), corroborating histological absence of pre-atherosclerosis. Hence, MEMS thermal sensors provide a new approach to detect changes in convective heat transfer in the pre-atherosclerotic regions.

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Diet, AtherogenicHot TemperatureThermal ConductivityAnimalsAortaAtherosclerosisDietary FatsMaleRabbitsThermogenesisDietary Fats

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PMID21380571
PMCPMC3322507

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