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scaffold that is mechanically compatible with a diseased vessel, their success needs
to be determined following cell seeding and implantation into the body.
Finite element modeling can be used to assess the mechanical environment
within the scaffold post implantation. Previous work by Zahedmanesh etal.
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lined a method to assess the mechanical suitability of bacterial cellulose as a TEBV
scaffold, whereby the scaffold was tested in uniaxial extension tests, and data were
used to develop a constitutive model for the tissue that could be implemented into
a nite element model. While Zahedmanesh etal.
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demonstrated the close match
between the compliance of this scaffold to that of natural scaffolds, the constitut ...