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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Zhao, Jingbo; | Lu, Xiao | Zhuang, Fengyuan | Gregersen, Hans; ;
Affiliations: Institute of Experimental Clinical Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark | Institute of Clinical‐Medicine Science, China–Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China | Center of Sensory‐Motor Interaction, MIBA, Aalborg University and Department A, Aalborg Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
Note: [] Address for correspondence: Hans Gregersen, Biomechanics Laboratory, Institute of Experimental Clinical Research, Skejby University Hospital, DK‐8200 Aarhus N, Denmark. Tel.: +45 8949 5512; Fax: +45 89496011; E‐mail: [email protected].
Abstract: Morphometric and passive biomechanical properties were studied in isolated segments of the thoracic and abdominal aorta, left common carotid artery, left femoral artery and the left pulmonary artery in 20 non‐diabetic and 28 streptozotocin (STZ)‐induced diabetic rats. The diabetic and non‐diabetic rats were divided into groups living 1, 4, 8, and 12 weeks after the induction of diabetes (n=7 for each diabetic group) or sham injection (n=5 for each group). The mechanical test was performed as a distension experiment where the proximal end of the arterial segment was connected via a tube to the container used for applying pressures to the segment and the distal end was left free. The vessel diameter and length were obtained from digitized images of the arterial segments at pre‐selected pressures and at no‐load and zero‐stress states. Circumferential and longitudinal stresses (force per area) and strains (deformation) were computed from the length, diameter and pressure data and from the zero‐stress state data. The zero‐stress state was obtained by cutting vessel rings radially causing the rings to open up into a sector. Diabetes was associated with pronounced morphometric changes, e.g., wall thickness. With respect to the biomechanical data, the opening angle increased and reached a plateau in 4 weeks after which it decreased again (p<0.05). The opening angle was smallest in the thoracic aorta and largest in the pulmonary artery. Furthermore, it was found that the circumferential stiffness of the arteries studied increased with the duration of diabetes. In the longitudinal direction significant differences were found 8 weeks after injection of STZ in all arteries except the pulmonary artery. In the 12 weeks group, the femoral artery was stiffest in the circumferential direction whereas the thoracic aorta was stiffest in the longitudinal direction. The accumulated serum glucose level correlated with the arterial wall thickness and elastic modulus (correlation coefficient between 0.56 and 0.81).
Keywords: Diabetic angiopathy, morphometry, stress–strain, arterial stiffness, zero‐stress state
Journal: Biorheology, vol. 37, no. 5-6, pp. 385-400, 2000
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