Effect of Water Content on Enthalpic Relaxations in Porcine Septal Cartilage. Academic Article

abstract

• Cartilage thermoforming is an emerging surgical technology which uses heat to accelerate stress relaxation in mechanically deformed tissue specimens. Heat induced shape change in cartilage is associated with complex thermo mechanical behavior of which the mechanisms are still a subject of debate. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was used to characterize the threshold temperatures and enthalpies in cartilage as a function of water content. The DSC identified two enthalpic events in porcine nasal septal cartilage, which depend on the water content. The change in the water content of cartilage impacts the interactions between matrix macromolecules and water molecules, which may be associated with a bound-free water transformation (reversible process) and a denaturation of cartilage (irreversible process).

authors

• Lavernia Borrego, Enrique

published proceedings

• J Therm Anal Calorim

author list (cited authors)

• Chae, Y., Protsenko, D., Lavernia, E. J., & Wong, B.

complete list of authors

• Chae, Y||Protsenko, D||Lavernia, EJ||Wong, BJF

publication date

• March 2009

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry  Journal

keywords

• Cartilage
• Cartilage Reshaping
• Enthalpic Relaxation
• Nasal Septum
• Thermal Transition
• Threshold Temperature
• Tmdsc

PubMed Central ID

• 25425960

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/s10973-007-8782-4

start page

• 937

end page

• 943

volume

• 95

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10973-007-8782-4