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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