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Users of the Deben CT500 stage in the lab of Dr Sunita Ho, University of California San Francisco.
(Andrew Jang is a PhD candidate while Dr Jing Du is a Post-Doctoral Fellow)
Users of the Deben CT500 stage in the lab of Dr Sunita Ho, University of California San Francisco. (Andrew Jang is a PhD candidate while Dr Jing Du is a Post-Doctoral Fellow)

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Deben, leading providers of in-situ testing stages together with innovative accessories and components for electron microscopy, report on the research of Associate Professor Sunita Ho and her team at the UCSF School of Dentistry where they gather biomechanical data on dental materials including tissues from humans and other vertebrate systems using a Deben tensile stage in a Micro XCT system (ZEISS Xradia).

Deben reports on the research of Dr Sunita Ho from UCSF using a CCT500 tensile stage to study the behaviour of dental materials

Woolpit, UK | Posted on April 14th, 2015

Sunita Ho is an interdisciplinary scientist, an Associate Professor in the Division of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Department of Preventive & Restorative Dental Sciences, part of the University of California San Francisco's School of Dentistry. Dr Ho's research team in the Laboratory of Biomechanics and Biomineralization uses a Deben CT500 tensile stage to visualize organs under loaded conditions. Imaging for visualisation is typically done using a high resolution x-ray microscope, the Micro XCT-200, (ZEISS Xradia, Pleasanton, CA).

Scans obtained at no load and loaded conditions are used to evaluate mechanical strains in volumes of tissues. Responses of bone and other related mineralized tissues at the entheses of bone-ligament, cementum-ligament, and dentin and enamel in various vertebrates at different loading rates are routinely investigated. Additionally, studies entail investigating changes in biomechanics as a result of adaptation due to a prolonged chewing of harder and softer food substrates and clinical interventions such as pharmacological therapies. The biomechanical data (deformations and strains in volumes of tissues) obtained from Deben system is routinely correlated with conventional histology and immunohistochemistry.

Describing her motivation for this research, Dr Ho says "Our motivation is to perform multiscale biomechanical analyses on organs and then tissues within intact organs to visualize volumes of strains in intact tissues. This enables us to gain a holistic perspective on their role toward organ adaptation. That is to address the tenet of 'form and function.' The use of the Deben stage coupled to our x-ray microscope is optimum. Additionally, to be able to perform in situ biomechanical studies under wet conditions provides a much needed realistic perspective by allowing measurements closer to physiological conditions."

Dr Ho selected the Deben tensile stage to fit specifically into the ZEISS Xradia microscope. This is because it provides in situ imaging under loaded conditions. The ability to couple the loading device with a microscope is a key requirement for in situ biomechanical testing and volumetric strain mapping. Having been one of the pioneers to perform in situ tensile testing, the group has been able to publish several keynote papers and have been presenting concepts related to "biomechanics and mechanobiology" at several meetings including the Materials Research Society (MRS), and International Association for Dental Research (IADR), many of which are available on the web.*

To obtain full details of the Deben applications and product portfolio, please visit www.deben.co.uk.

*References

Lin J D, Lee J, Ozcoban H, Schneider G A, Ho S P. Biomechanical adaptation of
the bone-periodontal ligament (PDL)-tooth fibrous joint as a consequence of disease.
J Biomech. 2014 Jun 27; 47(9).

Lin, J D, Özcoban H, Greene J P, Jang A T, Djomehri S I, Fahey K P,
Hunter L L, Schneider G A, Ho S P . Biomechanics of a bone-periodontal
ligament-tooth fibrous joint. Journal of Biomechanics. 2013; (46):443-449.

Jang A T, Lin J D, Seo Y, Etchin S, Merkle A, Fahey K, Ho S P. In situ Compressive Loading and Correlative Noninvasive Imaging of the Bone-periodontal Ligament-tooth Fibrous Joint. J Vis Exp. 2014; (85). www.jove.com/video/51147/in-situ-compressive-loading-correlative-noninvasive-imaging-bone

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Deben are a UK precision engineering company specialising in the field of in-situ tensile testing, motion control and specimen cooling for microscopy applications. Established in 1986 and named after a Suffolk river, Deben now operate from a large, modern business unit in Woolpit near Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk. The product groups are motor control systems, in-situ micro-tensile stages, Peltier heating & cooling stages, detectors for SEMs and electro-static beam blankers. The company also makes custom and OEM versions of these products to specifically meet customer requirements.

Deben provide consultancy, design and prototype manufacturing services. In house facilities include SolidWorks and SolidEdge 3D CAD and COSMOS finite element analysis software, CNC machining, electronics design and manufacture and software design using Visual C++, Microsoft.net and DirectX. Utilising these resources and experience, Deben manufacture products for OEMs and end users in the UK and overseas.

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