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Pirozzi I, Kight A, Han AK, Cutkosky MR, Dual SA. Circulatory Support: Artificial Muscles for the Future of Cardiovascular Assist Devices. Adv Mater 2023:e2210713. [PMID: 36827651 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202210713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2022] [Revised: 02/11/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Artificial muscles enable the design of soft implantable devices which are poised to transform the way we mechanically support the heart today. Heart failure is a prevalent and deadly disease, which is treated with the implantation of rotary blood pumps as the only alternative to heart transplantation. The clinically used mechanical devices are associated with severe adverse events, which are reflected here in a comprehensive list of critical requirements for soft active devices of the future: low power, no blood contact, pulsatile support, physiological responsiveness, high cycle life, and less-invasive implantation. In this review, we investigate and critically evaluate prior art in artificial muscles for their applicability in the short and long term. We highlight the main challenges regarding the effectiveness, controllability, and implantability of recently proposed actuators and explore future perspectives for attachment, physiological responsiveness, durability, and biodegradability as well as equitable design considerations. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ileana Pirozzi
- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Palo Alto, 94301, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Palo Alto, 94301, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Palo Alto, 94301, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 14157, Huddinge, Sweden
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Kight A, Pirozzi I, Liang X, McElhinney DB, Han AK, Dual SA, Cutkosky M. Decoupling Transmission and Transduction for Improved Durability of Highly Stretchable, Soft Strain Sensing: Applications in Human Health Monitoring. Sensors (Basel) 2023; 23:1955. [PMID: 36850551 PMCID: PMC9967534 DOI: 10.3390/s23041955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2022] [Revised: 01/24/2023] [Accepted: 02/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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This work presents a modular approach to the development of strain sensors for large deformations. The proposed method separates the extension and signal transduction mechanisms using a soft, elastomeric transmission and a high-sensitivity microelectromechanical system (MEMS) transducer. By separating the transmission and transduction, they can be optimized independently for application-specific mechanical and electrical performance. This work investigates the potential of this approach for human health monitoring as an implantable cardiac strain sensor for measuring global longitudinal strain (GLS). The durability of the sensor was evaluated by conducting cyclic loading tests over one million cycles, and the results showed negligible drift. To account for hysteresis and frequency-dependent effects, a lumped-parameter model was developed to represent the viscoelastic behavior of the sensor. Multiple model orders were considered and compared using validation and test data sets that mimic physiologically relevant dynamics. Results support the choice of a second-order model, which reduces error by 73% compared to a linear calibration. In addition, we evaluated the suitability of this sensor for the proposed application by demonstrating its ability to operate on compliant, curved surfaces. The effects of friction and boundary conditions are also empirically assessed and discussed.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ali Kight
- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 11428 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Frishman S, Kight A, Pirozzi I, Maddineni S, Imbrie-Moore AM, Karachiwalla Z, Paulsen MJ, Kaiser AD, Woo YJ, Cutkosky MR. DynaRing: A Patient-Specific Mitral Annuloplasty Ring With Selective Stiffness Segments. J Med Device 2022; 16:031009. [PMID: 35646225 PMCID: PMC9125864 DOI: 10.1115/1.4054445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2021] [Revised: 02/23/2022] [Indexed: 09/03/2023] Open
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Annuloplasty ring choice and design are critical to the long-term efficacy of mitral valve (MV) repair. DynaRing is a selectively compliant annuloplasty ring composed of varying stiffness elastomer segments, a shape-set nitinol core, and a cross diameter filament. The ring provides sufficient stiffness to stabilize a diseased annulus while allowing physiological annular dynamics. Moreover, adjusting elastomer properties provides a mechanism for effectively tuning key MV metrics to specific patients. We evaluate the ring embedded in porcine valves with an ex-vivo left heart simulator and perform a 150 million cycle fatigue test via a custom oscillatory system. We present a patient-specific design approach for determining ring parameters using a finite element model optimization and patient MRI data. Ex-vivo experiment results demonstrate that motion of DynaRing closely matches literature values for healthy annuli. Findings from the patient-specific optimization establish DynaRing's ability to adjust the anterior-posterior and intercommissural diameters and saddle height by up to 8.8%, 5.6%, 19.8%, respectively, and match a wide range of patient data.
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- Samuel Frishman
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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Stoy WM, Yang B, Kight A, Wright NC, Borden PY, Stanley GB, Forest CR. Compensation of physiological motion enables high-yield whole-cell recording in vivo. J Neurosci Methods 2020; 348:109008. [PMID: 33242530 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2020.109008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2020] [Revised: 11/18/2020] [Accepted: 11/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Whole-cell patch-clamp recording in vivo is the gold-standard method for measuring subthreshold electrophysiology from single cells during behavioural tasks, sensory stimulations, and optogenetic manipulation. However, these recordings require a tight, gigaohm resistance, seal between a glass pipette electrode's aperture and a cell's membrane. These seals are difficult to form, especially in vivo, in part because of a strong dependence on the distance between the pipette aperture and cell membrane. NEW METHOD We elucidate and utilize this dependency to develop an autonomous method for placement and synchronization of pipette's tip aperture to the membrane of a nearby, moving neuron, which enables high-yield seal formation and subsequent recordings deep in the brain of the living mouse. RESULTS This synchronization procedure nearly doubles the reported gigaseal yield in the thalamus (>3 mm below the pial surface) from 26 % (n = 17/64) to 48 % (n = 32/66). Whole-cell recording yield improved from 10 % (n = 9/88) to 24 % (n = 18/76) when motion compensation was used during the gigaseal formation. As an example of its application, we utilized this system to investigate the role of the sensory environment and ventral posterior medial region (VPM) projection synchrony on intracellular dynamics in the barrel cortex. COMPARISON WITH EXISTING METHOD(S) Current methods of in vivo whole-cell patch clamping do not synchronize the position of the pipette to motion of the cell. CONCLUSIONS This method results in substantially greater subcortical whole-cell recording yield than previously reported and thus makes pan-brain whole-cell electrophysiology practical in the living mouse brain.
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- William M Stoy
- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States; George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States.
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Frishman S, Kight A, Pirozzi I, Coffey MC, Daniel BL, Cutkosky MR. Enabling In-Bore MRI-Guided Biopsies With Force Feedback. IEEE Trans Haptics 2020; 13:159-166. [PMID: 31976906 DOI: 10.1109/toh.2020.2967375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Limited physical access to target organs of patients inside an MRI scanner is a major obstruction to real-time MRI-guided interventions. Traditional teleoperation technologies are incompatible with the MRI environment and although several solutions have been explored, a versatile system that provides high-fidelity haptic feedback and access deep inside the bore remains a challenge. We present a passive and nearly frictionless MRI-compatible hydraulic teleoperator designed for in-bore liver biopsies. We describe the design components, characterize the system transparency, and evaluate the performance with a user study in a laboratory and a clinical setting. The results demonstrate % difference between input and output forces during realistic manipulation. A user study with participants conducting mock needle biopsy tasks indicates that a remote operator performs equally well when using the device as when holding a biopsy needle directly in hand. Additionally, MRI compatibility tests show no reduction in signal-to-noise ratio in the presence of the device.
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DeLille J, Peterson EC, Johnson T, Moore M, Kight A, Henry R. A novel precursor recognition element facilitates posttranslational binding to the signal recognition particle in chloroplasts. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:1926-31. [PMID: 10660682 PMCID: PMC26538 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.030395197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Signal recognition particles (SRPs) in the cytosols of prokaryotes and eukaryotes are used to target proteins to cytoplasmic membranes and the endoplasmic reticulum, respectively. The mechanism of targeting relies on cotranslational SRP binding to hydrophobic signal sequences. An organellar SRP identified in chloroplasts (cpSRP) is unusual in that it functions posttranslationally to localize a subset of nuclear-encoded thylakoid proteins. In assays that reconstitute thylakoid integration of the light harvesting chlorophyll-binding protein (LHCP), stromal cpSRP binds LHCP posttranslationally to form a cpSRP/LHCP transit complex, which is believed to represent the LHCP form targeted to thylakoids. In this investigation, we have identified an 18-aa sequence motif in LHCP (L18) that, along with a hydrophobic domain, is required for transit complex formation. Fusion of L18 to the amino terminus of an endoplasmic reticulum-targeted protein, preprolactin, led to transit complex formation whereas wild-type preprolactin exhibited no ability to form a transit complex. In addition, a synthetic L18 peptide, which competed with LHCP for transit complex formation, caused a parallel inhibition of LHCP integration. Translocation of proteins by the thylakoid Sec and Delta pH transport systems was unaffected by the highest concentration of L18 peptide examined. Our data indicate that a motif contained in L18 functions in precursor recruitment to the posttranslational SRP pathway, one of at least four different thylakoid sorting pathways used by chloroplasts.
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- J DeLille
- Biological Sciences Department, 601 Science-Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
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