A new study, which involved 14 human subjects, used a device that simulated blood flowing through narrowed coronary arteries to assess effects of anti-clotting drugs. The study is the first to examine how aspirin and another heart attack prevention drug respond to a variety of mechanical blood flow forces in healthy and diseased arteries.
Credit: Credit: Rob Felt.
Craig Forest, an assistant professor of bioengineering in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, holds the microfluidic chip used in the study. The chip has narrow passageways to simulate the coronary arteries.
Credit: Credit: Rob Felt.
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