Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics

ISSN: 1556-5297 (print)
ISSN: 1556-5300 (online) Publication Frequency: Quarterly

About the Journal

The field of biomechanics concerns with motion, deformation, and forces in biological systems. With the explosive progress in molecular biology, genomic engineering, bioimaging, and nanotechnology, there will be an ever-increasing generation of knowledge and information concerning the mechanobiology of genes, proteins, cells, tissues, and organs. Such information will bring new diagnostic tools, new therapeutic approaches, and new knowledge on ourselves and our interactions with our environment. It becomes apparent that biomechanics focusing on molecules, cells as well as tissues and organs is an important aspect of modern biomedical sciences. The aims of this journal are to facilitate the studies of the mechanics of biomolecules (including proteins, genes, cytoskeletons, etc.), cells (and their interactions with extracellular matrix), tissues and organs, the development of relevant advanced mathematical methods, and the discovery of biological secrets. As science concerns only with relative truth, we seek ideas that are state-of-the-art, which may be controversial, but stimulate and promote new ideas, new techniques, and new applications. This journal will encourage the exchange of ideas that may be seminal, or hold promise to stimulate others to new findings.

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Applied Mechanics Reviews; BIOBASE (Elsevier); BIOSIS Preview-Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics); Cambridge Scientific Abstracts-Proquest; Ei Compendex/Engineering Village (Elsevier); EMBASE (Elsevier); GEOBASE (Elsevier); INSPEC (IET); Science Navigator; Scopus (Elsevier): Citescore 2021: 0.8; SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper 2021): 0.094; World Textiles and Scopus; Zentralblatt fur Mathematik; Portico, etc...

Current Issue - Vol.19, No.3, 2022 Most Viewed

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Comparison of Biomechanical Characteristics during the Second Landing Phase in Female Latin Dancers: Evaluation of the Bounce and Side Chasse Step
Fengfeng Li¹, Huiyu Zhou^1,2, Datao Xu¹, Julien S. Baker³, Yaodong Gu^1,*
Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.19, No.3, pp. 115-129, 2022, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2022.022658
Abstract Research on dance lower extremity joint motion has been limited. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the lower limb biomechanics differences between the side chasse step (SCS) and the bounce step (BS) of the second landing phase in Jive. Thirteen female recreational Latin dancers (Age: 22 ± 2.5 years; Height: 1.65 ± 0.05 m; Weight: 50 ± 4.5 kg; Dance experience: 4 ± 2 years) were involved in the experiment. The same music was used throughout the data collection period. We intended to determine whether these two steps generate different kinematic and kinetic data. The ankle, hip, and knee joint angle, moment, velocity, and… More
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A Study on the Importance of Core Strength and Coordination Balance during Basketball Based on Biomechanics
Yixin Liu^*
Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.19, No.3, pp. 131-139, 2022, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2022.019342
Abstract When basketball players play against each other in a game, better coordinated balance can give them a better advantage. This paper briefly introduces the coordination balance and core strength of basketball players. Twenty basketball varsity members were selected from Chengdu College of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China as subjects for the test. The athletes were randomly divided into a control group and an experimental group. The control group received regular strength training, and the experimental group received core strength training in addition to regular training. Both groups underwent isometric muscle strength test, coordination and balance test and… More
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Analysis of Biomechanical Characteristics of Football Players at Different Levels Kicking with the Inner Edge of Instep
Enhua Li^*
Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.19, No.3, pp. 141-149, 2022, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2022.018558
Abstract This study aims to analyze the difference in biomechanical properties of football players at different levels when kicking the football with the inner edge of the instep. Before the experiment, ten football players were selected; five were higher than the national level (group A), and the other five players were lower than the national level II (group B). During the experiment, the motion process was captured by a high-speed camera for biomechanical analysis. It was found that in group A, the thigh and leg swung in less time and larger amplitude, the acceleration of backswing and forward swing of the… More
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Measurement of Myopia and Normal Human Choroidal Thickness Using Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography
Jia Qin^1,2,3,4,5, Lin An^1,2,3,4,5,*
Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.19, No.3, pp. 151-157, 2022, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2022.018578
Abstract Myopia is a common ophthalmic deficiency. The structure and function of choroid layer is assumed to be associated with myopia. In this study, a laboratory developed spectral domain optical coherence tomography scanning system is used to image human eyes. The axial resolution of the system is about 7 μm, and the acquisition rate is 100 kHz. Firstly, a cross-sectional image was acquired by averaging 100 images from imaging posterior segment of each eye. The choroid thickness was measured by 11 discrete points. The average thickness of normal human eyes was (0.296 ± 0.126) mm, whereas the average choroid thickness of… More
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A New Approach through the Eye of a Needle and Its Potential Application in Bioscience
Hongfang Song^1,2, Aike Qiao^3,4,*
Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.19, No.3, pp. 159-164, 2022, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2022.019005
Abstract Putting the thread through the eye of a needle is a very ordinary issues in daily life. The mechanism of putting the thread through the eye of a needle is quite similar to threading a series of polymer chains through synthetic macrocycle in bioscience. A new rubbing approach to thread through the eye of a needle was proposed in this paper, and its potential application in the fields of biomechanics and mechanobiology to mimic the micro scale assembly processes was discussed. More
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Kinematic and Dynamic Characteristics of Pulsating Flow in 180^o Tube
Tin-Kan Hung^1,*, Ruei-Hung Kuo², Cheng-Hsien Chiang³
Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.17, No.1, pp. 19-24, 2020, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.07817
Abstract Kinematic and dynamic characteristics of pulsating flow in a model of human aortic arch are obtained by a computational analysis. Three-dimensional flow processes are summarized by pressure distributions on the symmetric plane together with velocity and pressure contours on a few cross sections for systolic acceleration and deceleration. Without considering the effects of aortic tapering and the carotid arteries, the development of tubular boundary layer with centrifugal forces and pulsation are also analyzed for flow separation and backflow during systolic deceleration. More
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A Retrospective Respiratory Gating System Based on Epipolar Consistency Conditions
Maosen Lian¹, Yi Li¹, Xiaohui Gu¹, Shouhua Luo^1,*
Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.17, No.1, pp. 41-48, 2020, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.07383
Abstract Motion artifacts of in vivo imaging, due to rapid respiration rate and respiration displacements of the mice while free-breathing, is a major challenge in micro computed tomography(micro-CT). The respiratory gating is often served for either projective images acquisition or per projection qualification, so as to eliminate the artifacts brought by in vivo motion. In this paper, we propose a novel respiratory gating method, which firstly divides one rotation cycle into a number of segments, and extracts the respiratory signal from the projective image series of current segment by the value of the epipolar consistency conditions (ECC), then in terms of… More
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A Study on the Finite Element Model for Head Injury in Facial Collision Accident
Bin Yang^1,2,3,*, Hao Sun¹, Aiyuan Wang¹, Qun Wang²
Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.17, No.1, pp. 49-62, 2020, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.07534
Abstract In order to predict and evaluate injury mechanism and biomechanical response of the facial impact on head injury in a crash accident. With the combined modern medical imaging technologies, namely computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), both geometric and finite element (FE) models for human head-neck with detailed cranio-facial structure were developed. The cadaveric head impact tests were conducted to validate the headneck finite element model. The intracranial pressure, skull dynamic response and skull-brain relative displacement of the whole head-neck model were compared with experimental data. Nine typical cases of facial traffic accidents were simulated, with the individual… More
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New Concept in Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA)
Ali. E. Dabiri^1,2,*, Matthew Martin³, Ghassan S. Kassab¹
Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.17, No.1, pp. 25-31, 2020, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.07310
Abstract The world-wide impact of traumatic injury and associated hemorrhage on human health and well-being is significant. Methods to manage bleeding from sites within the torso, referred to as non-compressible torso hemorrhage (NCTH), remain largely limited to the use of conventional operative techniques. The overall mortality rate of patients with NCTH is approximately 50%. Studies from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have suggested that up to 80% of potentially survivable patients die as a result of uncontrolled exsanguinating hemorrhage. The commercially available resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) is a percutaneous device for the rapid control of torso… More
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Multifrequency Microwave Imaging for Brain Stroke Detection
Lulu Wang^1,*
Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.17, No.1, pp. 33-40, 2020, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.07165
Abstract CT and MRI are often used in the diagnosis and monitoring of stroke. However, they are expensive, time-consuming, produce ionizing radiation (CT), and not suitable for continuous monitoring stroke. Microwave imaging (MI) has been extensively investigated for identifying several types of human organs, including breast, brain, lung, liver, and gastric. The authors recently developed a holographic microwave imaging (HMI) algorithm for biological object detection. However, this method has difficulty in providing accurate information on embedded small inclusions. This paper describes the feasibility of the use of a multifrequency HMI algorithm for brain stroke detection. A numerical system, including HMI data… More
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On the Onset of Cracks in Arteries¹
P. Mythravaruni, K.Y. Volokh^*
Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.17, No.1, pp. 1-17, 2020, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.07606
Abstract We present a theoretical approach to study the onset of failure localization into cracks in arterial wall. The arterial wall is a soft composite comprising hydrated ground matrix of proteoglycans reinforced by spatially dispersed elastin and collagen fibers. As any material, the arterial tissue cannot accumulate and dissipate strain energy beyond a critical value. This critical value is enforced in the constitutive theory via energy limiters. The limiters automatically bound reachable stresses and allow examining the mathematical condition of strong ellipticity. Loss of the strong ellipticity physically means inability of material to propagate superimposed waves. The waves cannot propagate because… More
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