Kibret Mequanint Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering University of Western Ontario Biography Publications Institution JoVE Articles Kibret Mequanint has not added a biography. If you are Kibret Mequanint and would like to personalize this page please email our Author Liaison for assistance. Publications Activation of Transcription Factor GAX and Concomitant Down-regulation of IL-1β and ERK1/2 Modulate Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotype on 3D Fibrous Scaffolds Tissue Engineering. Part A. Jun, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26041434 Biodegradable Polyphosphazene Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Delivery of Therapeutics BioMed Research International. 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24883323 Controlled Delivery of Fibroblast Growth Factor-9 from Biodegradable Poly(ester Amide) Fibers for Building Functional Neovasculature Pharmaceutical Research. Dec, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24852896 Biomimetic L-aspartic Acid-derived Functional Poly(ester Amide)s for Vascular Tissue Engineering Acta Biomaterialia. Aug, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24769110 Regulation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotype in Three-dimensional Coculture System by Jagged1-selective Notch3 Signaling Tissue Engineering. Part A. Apr, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24138322 Fibrous Biodegradable L-alanine-based Scaffolds for Vascular Tissue Engineering Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. Jul, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 22899439 Role of Bioactive 3D Hybrid Fibrous Scaffolds on Mechanical Behavior and Spatiotemporal Osteoblast Gene Expression ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Aug, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23826710 Small-diameter Vascular Tissue Engineering Nature Reviews. Cardiology. Jul, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23689702 Computational Aspects in Mechanical Modeling of the Articular Cartilage Tissue Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of Engineering in Medicine. Apr, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23637216 Controlling Sensitivity and Stability of Ferrous-xylenol Orange-gelatin 3D Gel Dosimeters by Doping with Phenanthroline-type Ligands and Glyoxal Physics in Medicine and Biology. Mar, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23442385 Advances in Growth Factor Delivery for Therapeutic Angiogenesis Journal of Vascular Research. 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23154615 Bioactive and Biodegradable Nanocomposites and Hybrid Biomaterials for Bone Regeneration Journal of Functional Biomaterials. 2012 | Pubmed ID: 24955542 The Role of Ras-ERK-IL-1β Signaling Pathway in Upregulation of Elastin Expression by Human Coronary Artery Smooth Muscle Cells Cultured in 3D Scaffolds Biomaterials. Oct, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22796164 Hydroxyapatite Formation on Sol-gel Derived Poly(ε-caprolactone)/bioactive Glass Hybrid Biomaterials ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Jun, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22625179 Focal Contact Formation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells on Langmuir-Blodgett and Solvent-cast Films of Biodegradable Poly(ester Amide)s ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Mar, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22324781 The Role of Endothelial Cell-bound Jagged1 in Notch3-induced Human Coronary Artery Smooth Muscle Cell Differentiation Biomaterials. Mar, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22204979 Type I Collagen Cleavage is Essential for Effective Fibrotic Repair After Myocardial Infarction The American Journal of Pathology. Nov, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21907695 Tissue Engineering Scaffolds Containing Embedded Fluorinated-zeolite Oxygen Vectors Acta Biomaterialia. Oct, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21704199 Strategies in Functional Poly(ester Amide) Syntheses to Study Human Coronary Artery Smooth Muscle Cell Interactions Biomacromolecules. Jul, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21619072 Three-dimensional Topography of Synthetic Scaffolds Induces Elastin Synthesis by Human Coronary Artery Smooth Muscle Cells Tissue Engineering. Part A. Jun, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21284555 Prosthetic Aortic Heart Valves: Modeling and Design Medical Engineering & Physics. Mar, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 20971672 Synthesis and Electrospinning of ε-polycaprolactone-bioactive Glass Hybrid Biomaterials Via a Sol-gel Process Langmuir : the ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids. Dec, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 21050002 Fabrication of Highly Porous Tissue-engineering Scaffolds Using Selective Spherical Porogens Bio-medical Materials and Engineering. 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20592448 Smooth Muscle Alpha-actin and Calponin Expression and Extracellular Matrix Production of Human Coronary Artery Smooth Muscle Cells in 3D Scaffolds Tissue Engineering. Part A. Oct, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19323608 Interactions of Coronary Artery Smooth Muscle Cells with 3D Porous Polyurethane Scaffolds Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. Part A. May, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 18431771 Protein Adsorption and Platelet Adhesion Onto Ion-containing Polyurethanes Journal of Biomaterials Science. Polymer Edition. 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17931508 Novel Physically Crosslinked Polyurethane-block-poly(vinyl Pyrrolidone) Hydrogel Biomaterials Macromolecular Bioscience. May, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17457944 Polyurethane Biomaterials for Fabricating 3D Porous Scaffolds and Supporting Vascular Cells Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. Part A. Sep, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17326143 Elastin Biosynthesis: The Missing Link in Tissue-engineered Blood Vessels Cardiovascular Research. Jul, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16566911 Synthesis, Swelling Behavior, and Biocompatibility of Novel Physically Cross-linked Polyurethane-block-poly(glycerol Methacrylate) Hydrogels Biomacromolecules. Mar, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16529427 Engineering 3D Cellularized Collagen Gels for Vascular Tissue Regeneration Sébastien Meghezi1, Dawit G. Seifu1,2, Nina Bono1,3, Larry Unsworth2,4,5, Kibret Mequanint6, Diego Mantovani1,2 1Laboratory for Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Department Min-Met-Materials Eng & CHU de Québec Research Center, Canada Research Chair I for the Innovation in Surgery, Laval University, 2NSERC CREATE Program for Regenerative Medicine (NCPRM), Laval University, 3Department Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, 4Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, 5National Institute for Nanotechnology, National Research Council (Canada), 6Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Western Ontario JoVE 52812 Bioengineering
Engineering 3D Cellularized Collagen Gels for Vascular Tissue Regeneration Sébastien Meghezi1, Dawit G. Seifu1,2, Nina Bono1,3, Larry Unsworth2,4,5, Kibret Mequanint6, Diego Mantovani1,2 1Laboratory for Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Department Min-Met-Materials Eng & CHU de Québec Research Center, Canada Research Chair I for the Innovation in Surgery, Laval University, 2NSERC CREATE Program for Regenerative Medicine (NCPRM), Laval University, 3Department Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, 4Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, 5National Institute for Nanotechnology, National Research Council (Canada), 6Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Western Ontario JoVE 52812 Bioengineering