Biophysical methods to characterize cardiovascular tissues

Valérie Samouillan (1) , Jany Dandurand (1) , Colette Lacabanne (1) , Michel Spina (2) , Aleyda B. Amaro (3) , Vicenta Llorente-Cortés (3)

1 CIRIMAT - Centre interuniversitaire de recherche et d'ingenierie des matériaux
2 Unipd - Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua
3 Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona of the Spanish National Research Council (IIBB-CSIC)

The main constitutive macromolecules of cardio-vascular tissues, essential to the cohesion and resiliency, are also active components which evolve with the physiology and pathology. Their functionality is connected to their internal dynamics over various scales of time and length, in close correlation with water. Vibrational, thermal and dielectric techniques, which have showed their ability to characterize synthetic polymers, deserve to be adapted to the study of proteins and biological tissues. Through some examples, we will show how these techniques are concretely used to answer cardio-vascular problematics.

Mots clés: Cardiovascular tissues

Domaines: Médecine humaine et pathologie; Matériaux

Valérie Samouillan, Jany Dandurand, Colette Lacabanne, Michel Spina, Aleyda B. Amaro, et al.. Biophysical methods to characterize cardiovascular tissues. Journal of Cardiology Case Reports, 2018, 1 (1), pp.1-3. ⟨10.15761/JCCR.1000103⟩. ⟨hal-02001491⟩