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Development of a Transparent Peptide Functionalized Bacterial Derived Cellulose Wound Dressing

Keyword:: Cellulose, Transparency, Antimicrobial Peptides, Cellulose Binding Peptides, Biomaterials, and Wound Dressing
Creator:: van Zyl, Elizabeth
Advisor:: Coburn, Jeannine M
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-08-03
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Engineered blood vessels with spatially distinct regions for disease modeling

Keyword:: smooth muscle, bioreactor, microsphere, tissue engineered blood vessel, and disease modeling
Creator:: Strobel, Hannah A.
Advisor:: Rolle, Marsha Whitney
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2018-04-24
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Streamlining Tissue Engineering Workflows: Comparing Tissue Formation Between Freshly Cultured and Directly Thawed Cells

Keyword:: Cells, Rings, Viability, Freshly Thawed, Tissue model, and Tissue Engineering
Creator:: Santos-Heiman, Timothy
Advisor:: Rolle, Marsha Whitney
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-26
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF APOPTOSIS IN CALCIFICATION OF THE AORTIC VALVULAR INTERSTITIAL CELLS

Creator:: Jebeli, Mahvash
Advisor:: Billiar, Kristen
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-12-15
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Ultrasound Computed Tomography for Imaging Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessel

Keyword:: Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessel, Ultrasound Computer Tomography Imaging, Imaging Techniques in Tissue Engineering, and Imaging Tissue Engineering
Creator:: Jaupi, Enxhi
Advisor:: Zhang, Haichong
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-04-27
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

A Cell Spheroid Model of Calcific Aortic Valve Disease: The Role of Apoptosis and Oxidative Stress

Creator:: Coutts, Colin
Advisor:: Billiar, Kristen
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-05-21
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Creating a Functional Cardiac Patch From Decellularized Spinach Leaves

Keyword:: iPS-CM, decellularized plant, tissue engineering, and cardiac tissue patch
Creator:: Robbins, Emily
Advisor:: Gaudette, Glenn R.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-08-06
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Generation and Dissemination of a Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Functional Smooth Muscle Tissue

Keyword:: disease model, tissue engineering, mesenchymal stem cells, cryopreservation, and smooth muscle cells
Creator:: Grosha, Jonian
Advisor:: Rolle, Marsha Whitney
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-08-22
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Decellularized Tobacco Hairy Roots as Novel Tissue Culture Platform

Keyword:: scaffold, plant cells, decellularization, biomaterial, cell culture, and tobacco hairy roots
Creator:: Rahman, Mohammed Masrur
Advisor:: Coburn, Jeannine M
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2021-03-11
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Engineering silk fibroin scaffolds to model hypoxia in neuroblastoma

Keyword:: Hypoxia, Silk Fibroin , Neuroblastoma, and Scaffold
Creator:: Ornell, Kimberly J
Advisor:: Coburn, Jeannine M
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2019-08-07
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Cell-Derived Extracellular Matrix Scaffolds Developed using Macromolecular Crowding

Keyword:: macromolecular crowding, cell-derived matrices, Hyaluronic Acid, and extracellular matrix
Creator:: Shendi, Dalia M
Advisor:: Rolle, Marsha Whitney
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2019-08-07
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Upconversion Nanoparticles For Photodynamic Therapy

Creator:: Lee, Hyungseok, Tokatli-Apollon, Amira, and El-Rifai, Mahmoud A.
Advisor:: Rolle, Marsha Whitney
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2014-04-22
Resource Type:: Major Qualifying Project

Fibroblast activation and pro-fibrotic phenotypes: modulation by FGF2 and MAPK signaling

Keyword:: myofibroblast, MAPK, fibrosis, FGF2, and fibroblast
Creator:: Dolivo, David
Advisor:: Dominko, Tanja
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2018-04-19
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biology & Biotechnology

Development of a Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell and Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocyte Seeded Biological Suture for Cell Delivery to Cardiac Tissue for Cardiac Regeneration Applications

Keyword:: fibrin microthreads, cardiovascular regeneration, Mesenchymal Stem Cells, human pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes, and high density mapping
Creator:: Hansen, Katrina J
Advisor:: Gaudette, Glenn R.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2017-12-13
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Development of a Biomimetic In Vitro Skeletal Muscle Tissue Model

Keyword:: 3D Tissue, Tissue Engineering, Muscular Dystrophy, Skeletal Muscle, High-throughput Screening, and In Vitro Model
Creator:: Forte, Jason Matthew
Advisor:: Page, Raymond L.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2017-04-12
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Changes in Passive and Dynamic Mechanical Environments Promote Differentiation to a Contractile Phenotype in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

Keyword:: smooth muscle cell, 3D culture, cell-derived matrix, Vascular Tissue Engineering, and phenotype
Creator:: Reidinger, Amanda Zoe
Advisor:: Rolle, Marsha Whitney
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2015-04-29
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Characterizing molecular-scale interactions between antimicrobial peptides and model cell membranes

Keyword:: QCM-D, Antimicrobial peptides, AFM, and Supported lipid bilayer
Creator:: Wang, Kathleen F
Advisor:: Camesano, Terri Anne
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2014-04-23
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Chemical Engineering

A circumferential stretch bioreactor for mechanical conditioning of smooth muscle rings

Keyword:: Vascular Tissue Engineering, cyclic stretch, mechanical conditioning, and bioreactor
Creator:: Cooper, Jennifer Lee
Advisor:: Rolle, Marsha Whitney
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2014-04-30
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Fabrication and Characterization of Electrospun Poly-Caprolactone-Gelatin Composite Cuffs for Tissue Engineered Blood Vessels

Keyword:: Electrospinning, Vascular Tissue Engineering, and Biomaterials
Creator:: Mayor, Elizabeth Laura
Advisor:: Rolle, Marsha Whitney
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2015-04-29
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

A mechanism for the FGF2-mediated down-regulation of integrin alpha-11 identified through studying altered adhesome of human dermal fibroblasts undergoing early Mesenchymal-to-Epithelial Transition

Keyword:: FGF2, ECM, hESC, and ITGA11
Creator:: Grella, Alexandra R
Advisor:: Dominko, Tanja
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2015-01-29
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biology & Biotechnology

Myocyte Derived Cardiac Spheroids for Post Infarct Cardiac Regeneration

Keyword:: cardiac myocyte, cardiac regeneration, and Cardiac spheroids
Creator:: Burford, Evans J
Advisor:: Gaudette, Glenn R.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2014-01-29
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Braided Collagen Microthreads as a Cell Delivery System in Bioengineered Muscle Regeneration

Keyword:: microthreads, collagen, and muscle regeneration
Creator:: Makridakis, Jennifer Lynn
Advisor:: Pins, George D
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2010-12-13
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Engineered Vascular Tissue Generated by Cellular Self-Assembly

Keyword:: Self-Assembly, cell-derived, and vascular graft
Creator:: Gwyther, Tracy A
Advisor:: Rolle, Marsha Whitney
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2012-01-13
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Centritubing: Using Centrifugal Force to Create Self-Assembled Tubular Tissue Constructs

Keyword:: Tissue Engineering, Self-Assembly, centrifugal force, TEBV, and tubular construct
Creator:: Jones, Craig
Advisor:: Rolle, Marsha Whitney
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2013-01-09
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Designing Biomaterial Surfaces to Enhance Adhesion at the Skin-Implant Interface

Keyword:: keratinocytes, neuroprosthetics, percutaneous seal, Cell adhesion, and percutaneous implant
Creator:: Ting, Cara M
Advisor:: Pins, George D
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2011-05-03
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Conditioning of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Initiates Cardiogenic Differentiation and Increases Function in Infarcted Hearts

Keyword:: cardiomyoplasty, cardiac mechanical function, stem cell differentiation, and Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Creator:: Guyette, Jacques Paul
Advisor:: Gaudette, Glenn R.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2012-01-16
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Modifying and Measuring the Stiffness of a Regenerative Cardiac Scaffold In Vitro

Keyword:: myocardial infarction, Ascorbic Acid, Dacron, membrane inflation, Veritas, HDM, Fibroblasts, UBM, and heart
Creator:: Filipe, Daniel V
Advisor:: Gaudette, Glenn R. and Rolle, Marsha Whitney
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2010-12-01
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Assessment of Ascorbic Acid Effects on the Properties of Cell-Derived Tissue Rings

Keyword:: Ascorbic Acid, TEBVs, Tissue Engineering, RASMCs, collagen, and CDM
Creator:: Hu, Jason Z
Advisor:: Rolle, Marsha Whitney
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2010-06-24
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Rapid and Uniform Cell Seeding on Fibrin Microthreads to Generate Tissue Engineered Microvessels

Keyword:: UV crosslinking, Cell seeding, fibrin microthreads, v well seeding, and mesencymal stem cells
Creator:: Parekh, Darshan P
Advisor:: Rolle, Marsha Whitney
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2010-05-05
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Delivering Stem Cells to the Heart

Keyword:: microthreads, heart attack, hMSC, and myocardial infarction
Creator:: Fakharzadeh, Michael
Advisor:: Gaudette, Glenn R.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2010-05-03
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Biaxial stretch effects on fibroblast-mediated remodeling of fibrin gel equivalents

Keyword:: mechanobiology, matrix remodeling, fibroblast, and cyclic stretch
Creator:: Balestrini, Jenna Leigh
Advisor:: Billiar, Kristen
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2009-08-14
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Direct cell seeding on collagen-coated silicone mandrels to generate cell-derived tissue tubes

Keyword:: blood vessels and vascular tissue enigneering
Creator:: Doshi, Kshama J
Advisor:: Rolle, Marsha Whitney
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2009-08-28
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Fibrin Microthreads Promote Stem Cell Growth for Localized Delivery in Regenerative Therapy

Keyword:: infarct, myocardium, microthreads, human mesenchymal stem cells, and Fibrin
Creator:: Murphy, Megan K
Advisor:: Pins, George D, Gaudette, Glenn R., and Rolle, Marsha Whitney
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2008-09-02
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

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