Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2004. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 205-223).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin, 1953. / Typescript (carbon copy). eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [38]-40).

Thesis (M.S.)--California Polytechnic State University, 2009. / Mode of access: Internet. Title from PDF title page; viewed on May 29, 2009. Major professor: Kristen O'Halloran Cardinal, Ph.D. "Presented to the faculty of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo." "In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree [of] Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering." "May 2009." Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-123). Also available on microfiche.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed July 21, 2010). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.) -- Worcester Polytechnic Institute. / Keywords: histology; implant; biomaterials; MRI. Includes bibliographical references (p.80-86).

Submitted by Maria Anália Conceição (marianaliaconceicao@gmail.com) on 2016-06-27T19:41:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Publico-NOVO-21.pdf: 2987989 bytes, checksum: fedc0b7588511ac9f1b74f18e86aed33 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Anália Conceição (marianaliaconceicao@gmail.com) on 2016-06-27T19:42:44Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Publico-NOVO-21.pdf: 2987989 bytes, checksum: fedc0b7588511ac9f1b74f18e86aed33 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-27T19:42:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Publico-NOVO-21.pdf: 2987989 bytes, checksum: fedc0b7588511ac9f1b74f18e86aed33 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Agência Brasileira de Cooperação (ABC) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Rede Ibero-Americana de Biofabricação / Introdução: A Engenharia Tecidual (ET) é uma ciência multidisciplinar que visa produzir órgãos e partes humanas substitutas acometidas por lesões traumáticas, doenças degenerativas ou agenesias. Uma das suas etapas é a produção de arcabouços biocompatíveis para aplicação na Medicina Regenerativa. Estas estruturas são conhecidas como scaffolds, que apresentam macrogeometria semelhante ao tecido original, em textura e porosidade e direcionam o comportamento das células que serão semeadas. A recuperação da integridade anatômica e funcional de tecidos lesados garante a sobrevivência dos seres vivos e o tratamento de perdas extensas é desafiador. Objetivo: Avaliar a eficiência para desmineralizar e descelularizar dentes viabilizando-os como scaffolds naturais. Métodos: As amostras foram submetidas a um tratamento com soluções desmineralizadoras/descelularizadoras. Foram usadas 5 soluções: G1-Formol 10% controle, EDTA 28% para desmineralização nos quatro grupos; G2- hipoclorito de sódio 2,5%; e G3-peróxido de hidrogênio 9%; G4- hipoclorito de sódio 2,5% associado com detergente enzimático; G5- detergente enzimático associado a peróxido de hidrogênio 9%. A evolução da desmineralização e descelularização foi acompanhada durante 12 semanas, por meio de pesagem, técnicas analíticas MEV (Microscopia eletrônica de Varredura), fotografia e radiografia. As amostras foram pesadas a cada sete dias para controle da perda de mineral. Os resultados receberam análise estatística de variância de Friedman, Kruskal-Wallis, Resumo xix Teste do Quiquadrado e Teste exato de Fisher. Foi fixado em 0,05 ou 5% o nível de rejeição da hipótese de nulidade. Conclusão: O grupo 5 mostrouse microscopicamente a melhor solução, mesmo mantendo em 30% das amostras resíduos biológicos. / Tissue Engineering (TE) is a multidisciplinary science that aims to produce replacement organs and parts affected by trauma, degenerative diseases or agenesis. One of its goals is to produce biocompatible scaffolds for application in regenerative medicine. These structures are known as scaffolds, presenting three-dimensional shape similar to the original tissue in texture and porosity and directing the behavior of cells to be seeded. The recovery of anatomical and functional integrity of damaged tissues ensures the survival of living beings and the treatment of extensive losses is challenging. Objective: Get decelullarized and demineralized teeth to make them feasible as natural scaffolds. Methods: The samples will be subjected to a treatment with demineralizing/decelularizing solutions. 4 different solutions were used (14% EDTA, 2.5% sodium hypochlorite, hydrogen peroxide and 9% and one group of control (10% formaldehyde). The evolution of demineralization/decellularization was monitored for 90 days through the use of electron scanning microscopy, X-ray and photography. Samples’ weights were measured each seven days to control the mineral loss. Results were subjected to statistical analysis of variance, KruskalWallis test Wilcoxan and Chi-square Test. Was fixed at 0,05 or 5% rejection level of the null hypothesis. / FAPESP: 07/58856-7 / FAPESP: 07/59488-1 / FAPESP: 07/51227-4 / CNPq: 573661/2008-1 / FAPESP: 08/57860-3

Submitted by Ana Maria Fiscina Sampaio (fiscina@bahia.fiocruz.br) on 2013-04-18T18:23:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Jamile Gomes Conceição Caracterizaçao clinico...pdf: 1293623 bytes, checksum: 81e290f73ff54554a4e039099727ca5b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-04-18T18:23:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jamile Gomes Conceição Caracterizaçao clinico...pdf: 1293623 bytes, checksum: 81e290f73ff54554a4e039099727ca5b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Universidade Federal da Bahia. Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz / Mucoceles são lesões comuns da cavidade oral, causadas por alterações nos ductos excretórios de glândulas salivares menores. A fim de contribuir para um melhor conhecimento do perfil biológico destas lesões, este trabalho teve como objetivo estudar os aspectos clínico-patológicos em uma amostra de mucoceles da boca, bem como componentes celulares como vasos sanguíneos (anti-CD34), mastócitos (triptase de célula mastocitária), macrófagos (anti-CD68) e da matriz extracelular (metaloproteinase de matriz -1 e -9), por meio da técnica imuno-histoquímica. Foram estudados 100 casos de mucocele de extravasamento, o seu conteúdo de fibrose (picrossirius) e 32 casos investigados para as proteínas propostas, adotando-se critérios morfométricos e semiquantitativos. As lesões de mucocele atingiram mais o lábio inferior e a segunda e terceira décadas de vida, com média de 23.2 anos de idade (DP±12,24), sendo os homens mais acometidos pela lesão (56%). O tamanho médio foi de 1,1 cm (DP±0,57). Os vasos sanguíneos CD34 positivos estavam presentes em todos os espécimes (média de 55 microvasos por mm2; DP±0,36), mas a medida que se aproximavam do lúmen cístico pareciam desaparecer. Os mastócitos estavam presentes em todos os casos (média= 7.4; DP±0,12), mais concentrados na região cápsula em torno do tecido de granulação, reduzindo-se neste último. Os macrófagos estavam presentes no tecido de granulação (média= 88; DP±0,52), também em todos os casos, mas especialmente concentrados na superfície luminal e dentro da cavidade cística, sugerindo um importante papel na fagocitose de muco. MMPs apresentaram marcação variável presentes em fibroblastos, células inflamatórias e matriz extracelular, sendo MMP-1 ausente em um caso e a MMP-9 em dois. A fibrose também mostrou-se variável entre os casos. Apesar de existir associação estatística ente macrófagos e MMP1 (p<0.05, Kruskal Wallis), diferença significativa entre os diferentes marcadores não foi encontrada (p> 0.05, Kruskal Wallis). Este estudo contribuiu para o conhecimento dos mucoceles da boca em uma amostra representativa da população da Bahia, destacando que a dinâmica de desenvolvimento de formação dessas lesões envolve migração e interação chaves entre componentes celulares e da matriz extracelular importantes para o remodelamento tecidual dos mucoceles. / Mucoceles are common lesions of the oral cavity, caused by damage to the excretory ducts of salivary glands. The present study investigated a sample of oral mucoceles in our population, to describe their clinical and histopathological features, and to assess cell components such as blood vessels, mast cells, macrophages, and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs – 1 and -9), using immunohistochemistry, for a better understanding of biological profile of this lesion. Histochemistry using Picrossirius red staining was also included. The sample consisted of 100 oral mucoceles, 32 of which were included for investigating both cell components and MMPs, adopting morphometrical and semi-quantitative criteria. The lesions were located most often on the lower lip and second and third decades of life, with a mean of 23.2 years (SD±12,24). Males had a higher frequency (56%) and mean size of the lesions was 1.1cm ((DP±0,57). CD34-positive blood vessels were present in all specimens (mean, 55 microvessels per mm2), but as they approached the cystic lumen seemed to disappear. Mast cells were present in all cases (mean= 7.4; SD±0,12) and concentrated in the capsule surrounding the granulation tissue, although they were reduced in the latter. The macrophages were present in the granulation tissue (mean=88; SD±0.52), also in all cases, but they were especially concentrated on the luminal surface and within the cystic cavity, indicating a pivotal role in phagocytosis of mucus. MMPs showed variable immunostaining and were found in fibroblast and inflammatory cells, however, they were absent in one case of MMP1 and two cases of MMP9. Fibrosis was also variable in all of specimens. Although there was a statistical association between macrophages and MMP1 (P<0.05, Kruskal Wallis), significant difference between the different markers was not found (P<0.05, Kruskal Wallis). This study provides an important insight to the knowledge of oral mucoceles from a sample from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Furthermore, it highlights that the development dynamic of these lesions involves migration and interaction of key cellular and extracellular matrix components which are essential to the tissue remodeling of oral mucoceles.

The response of porcine adipose and skeletal muscle tissues to shock compression has been investigated using the plate-impact technique in conjunction with manganin foil pressure gauge diagnostics. This approach has allowed for measurement of the levels of uniaxial stress imparted to both skeletal muscle and rendered adipose tissue by the shock. In addition, the lateral stress component generated within adipose tissue during shock loading has also been investigated. The techniques employed in this study have allowed for equation-of-state relationships to be established for the investigated materials, highlighting non-hydrodynamic behaviour in each type of tissue over the range of investigated impact conditions. While the adipose tissue selected in this work has been shown to strengthen with impact stress in a manner similar to that seen to occur in polymeric materials, the skeletal muscle tissues exhibited a ow strength, or resistance to compression, that was independent of impact stress. Both the response of the adipose material and tested skeletal muscle tissues lie in contrast with the shock response of ballistic gelatin, which has previously been shown to exhibit hydrodynamic behaviour under equivalent loading conditions. Plate-impact experiments have also been used to investigate the shock response of a homogenized variant of one of the investigated muscle tissues. In the homogenized samples, the natural structure of skeletal muscle tissue, i.e. a fibrous and anisotropic composite, was heavily disrupted and the resulting material was milled into a fine paste. Rather than matching the response of the unaltered tissues, the datapoints generated from this type of experiment were seen to collapse back on to the hydrodynamic response predicted for skeletal muscle by its linear equation-of-state (Us = 1.72 + 1.88up). This suggests that the resistance to compression apparent in the data obtained for the virgin tissues was a direct result of the interaction of the shock with the quasi-organized structure of skeletal muscle. A soft-capture system has been developed in order to facilitate post-shock analysis of skeletal muscle tissue and to ascertain the effects of shock loading upon the structure of the material. The system was designed to deliver a one-dimensional, at-topped shock pulse to the sample prior to release. The overall design of the system was aided by use of the non-linear and explicit hydrocode ANSYSR AUTODYN. Following shock compression, sections of tissue were imaged using a transmission electron microscope (TEM). Both an auxetic-like response and large-scale disruption to the I-band/Z-disk regions within the tissue's structure were observed. Notably, these mechanisms have been noted to occur as a result of hydrostatic compression of skeletal muscle within the literature.