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Uni-Directional Cell Stretching DeviceThe present invention relates to an apparatus and method for applying various degrees of linear, mechanical loads on mammalian tissues, and in particular, for effecting linear stretching of tissue and simulating changes in hydrostatic pressures encountered during tissue contraction in vivo. The apparatus is useful for the study of mechanical loading in human tissue, and specifically, for permitting the evaluation of the effects of mechanical loading of skeletal or cardiac tissue and of the effects of removal of mechanical loading due to inactivity or the like, and the subsequent reapplication of load to these tissues.
Document ID
20010008197
Acquisition Source
Johnson Space Center
Document Type
Other - Patent
Authors
Feeback, Daniel L.
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX United States)
Clarke, Mark S. F.
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX United States)
Date Acquired
September 7, 2013
Publication Date
August 22, 2000
Subject Category
Life Sciences (General)
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
Patent
NASA-Case-MSC-22834-1|US-Patent-6,107,081
Patent Application
US-Patent-Appl-SN-245950
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