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<strong>Modelling</strong> <strong>and</strong> Simulating the Adhesion<br />

<strong>and</strong> Detachment of Chondrocytes<br />

in Shear Flow<br />

Jian Hao 1 , Tsorng-Whay Pan 1 , <strong>and</strong> Doreen Rosenstrauch 2<br />

1 Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-3008,<br />

USA jianh@math.uh.edu, pan@math.uh.edu<br />

2 The Texas Heart Institute <strong>and</strong> the University of Texas Health Science Center at<br />

Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA Doreen.Rosenstrauch@uth.tmc.edu<br />

1 Introduction<br />

Chondrocytes are typically studied in the environment where they normally<br />

reside such as the joints in hips, intervertebral disks or the ear. For example,<br />

in [SKE + 99], the effect of seeding duration on the strength of chondrocyte<br />

adhesion to articulate cartilage has been studied in shear flow chamber since<br />

such adhesion may play an important role in the repair of articular defects by<br />

maintaining cells in positions where their biosynthetic products can contribute<br />

to the repair process. However, in this investigation, we focus mainly on the<br />

use of auricular chondrocytes in cardiovascular implants. They are abundant,<br />

easily <strong>and</strong> efficiently harvested by a minimally invasive technique. Auricular<br />

chondrocytes have ability to produce collagen type-II <strong>and</strong> other important<br />

extracellular matrix constituents; this allows them to adhere strongly to the<br />

artificial surfaces. They can be genetically engineered to act like endothelial<br />

cells so that the biocompatibility of cardiovascular prothesis can be improved.<br />

Actually in [SBBR + 02], genetically engineered auricular chondrocytes can be<br />

used to line blood-contacting luminal surfaces of left ventricular assist device<br />

(LVAD) <strong>and</strong> a chondrocyte-lined LVAD has been planted into the tissue-donor<br />

calf <strong>and</strong> the results in vivo have proved the feasibility of using autologous auricular<br />

chondrocytes to improve the biocompatibility of the blood-biomaterial<br />

interface in LVADs <strong>and</strong> cardiovascular prothesis. Therefore, cultured chondrocytes<br />

may offer a more efficient <strong>and</strong> less invasive means of covering artificial<br />

surface with a viable <strong>and</strong> adherent cell layer.<br />

In this chapter, we first develop the model of the adhesion of chondrocytes<br />

to the artificial surface <strong>and</strong> then combine the resulting model with a Lagrange<br />

multiplier based fictitious domain method to simulate the detachment of chondrocyte<br />

cells in shear flow. The chondrocytes in the simulation are treated as<br />

neutrally buoyant rigid particles. As argued in [KS06] that the scaling estimates<br />

show that for typical parameter values for cell elasticity, deformations

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