https://www.selleckchem.com/pr....oducts/sndx-5613.htm
Although heart transplantation is a gold standard for severe heart failure, there is a need for alternative effective therapies. A dielectric-elastomer aorta is used to augment the physiological role of the aorta in the human circulatory system. To this end, the authors developed a tubular dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) able to assist the heart by easing the deformation of the aorta in the systole and by increasing its recoil force in the diastole. In vitro experiments using a pulsatile flow-loop, replicating human physiological