Videos & Publications

Five-minute Pregnancy Research Video

JMBBM Frontiers Seminar on Bioengineering in Women’s Health and Pregnancy

New Review Paper on Placental Bioengineering Research

https://rdcu.be/cdiaz

New publication on PPROM and Hurricanes!

Premature Rupture of Membranes and Severe Weather Systems by Wheeler ML and Oyen ML, Frontiers in Physiology 2020.

Special Focus Issues

2-part special issue in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface Focus.

Volume 1: Female Health and Pathology

Volume 2: Pregnancy–from implantation to parturition

Oyenlab Pregnancy Publications

Fetal Membranes and pPROM

• Oyen ML, Calvin SE, Cook RF, Uniaxial stress-relaxation and stress-strain responses of human amnion. J. Mater. Sci. Mater. Med. 15 (2004) 619 — 24. 
• Oyen ML, Cook RF, Calvin SE, Mechanical failure of human fetal membrane tissues. J. Mater. Sci. Mater. Med. 15 (2004) 651 — 8.
• Oyen ML, Cook RF, Stylianopoulos T, Barocas VH, Calvin SE, Landers DL, Uniaxial and biaxial mechanical behavior of human amnion. J. Mater. Res. 20 (2005) 2902 — 9. 
• Oyen ML, Calvin SE, Landers DV, Premature rupture of the fetal membranes: Is the amnion the major determinant?  Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. 195 (2006) 510 — 5.
• Calvin SE and Oyen ML, Microstructure and mechanics of the chorioamnion membrane with an emphasis on fracture properties.  Annals N. Y. Acad. Sciences 1101 (2007) 166 — 85.
• Chua W and Oyen ML, Do we know the strength of the chorioamnion?  A critical review and analysis.  Eur. J. Obstet. Gynecol. Reprod. Biol. 144 Supp. 1 (2009) 128 — 33. 
• Mauri A, Ehret AE, Perrini M, Maake C, Ochsenbein-Koelble N, Ehrbar M, Oyen ML, Mazza E, Deformation mechanisms of human amnion: Quantitative studies based on second harmonic generation microscopy.  J. Biomech. 48 (2015) 1606 — 13. 
• Verbruggen S, Oyen ML, Phillips A, Nowlan N, Function and failure of the fetal membrane: Modelling the mechanics of the chorion and amnion.  PLOS One 12 (2017) e0171588.
• Koh CT, Tonsomboon K, Oyen ML, Fracture Toughness of Human Amniotic Membranes, J. Royal Society Interface Focus (2019) in press.

Placenta and uterus

• Yao W, Yoshida K, Fernandez M, Vink J, Wapner RJ, Ananth CV, Oyen ML, Myers KM, Measuring the compressive viscoelastic mechanical properties of human cervical tissue using indentation.  J. Mech. Behav. Biomed. Mater.  34 (2014) 18 — 26.
• Oefner CM, Sharkey A, Gardner L, Critchley H, Oyen ML, Moffett A, Collagen type IV at the fetal-maternal interface.  Placenta 36 (2015) 59 — 68. 
• Plitman Mayo R, Charnock-Jones DS, Burton GJ, Oyen ML, Three-dimensional modeling of human placental villi. Placenta 43 (2016) 54 — 60. 
• Plitman Mayo R, Olsthoorn J, Charnock-Jones DS, Burton GJ, Oyen ML, Computational modeling of the structure-function relationship in human placental terminal villi. J. Biomech. 49 (2016) 3780 — 7.
• Kato Y, Burton GJ, Oyen ML, Villous tree model with active contractions for estimating blood flow conditions in the human placenta. Open Biomed. Eng. J.  11 (2017) 36 — 48.
• Abbas Y, Oefner CM, Polacheck WJ, Gardner L, Farrell L, Sharkey A, Kamm R, Moffett A, Oyen ML, A microfluidics assay to study invasion of human placental trophoblast cells.  J. Royal Soc. Interface  14 (2017) 20170131.
• Acharya G, Aplin J, Brownbill P, Bulmer J, Burton G, Chamley L, Chernyavsky I, Clark A, Collins S, Cottrell E, Dilworth M, Elad D, Filoche M, Hannan N, Heazell AEP, Jensen O, Johnstone ED, Leach L, Lewis R, Morgan T, Myers J, Nye G, Oyen M, Salafia C, Schneider H, O’Tierney-Ginn P, IFPA meeting 2017 workshop report: Clinical placentology, 3D structure-based modeling of placental function, placental bed, and treating placental dysfunction Placenta 64 Supp. 1 (2018) S4 — S8.