Virginia L. Ferguson

Bioengineering aspects of the umbilical cord.

Deformation partitioning provides insight into elastic, plastic, and viscous contributions to bone material behavior.

Evaluating temperature and duration in arterial tissue fusion to maximize bond strength.

Reinforcement of Mono- and Bi-layer Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Hydrogels with a Fibrous Collagen Scaffold.

A Hertzian contact mechanics based formulation to improve ultrasound elastography assessment of uterine cervical tissue stiffness.

Osteoprotegerin is an effective countermeasure for spaceflight-induced bone loss in mice.

Moderate chronic kidney disease impairs bone quality in C57Bl/6J mice.

An evolutionary model of osteoarthritis including articular cartilage damage, and bone remodeling in a computational study.

Enhanced mechanical properties of photo-clickable thiol-ene PEG hydrogels through repeated photopolymerization of in-swollen macromer.

Regenerative Medicine Approaches for the Treatment of Pediatric Physeal Injuries.

Indentation mapping revealed poroelastic, but not viscoelastic, properties spanning native zonal articular cartilage.

A new open-source tool for measuring 3D osteocyte lacunar geometries from confocal laser scanning microscopy reveals age-related changes to lacunar size and shape in cortical mouse bone.

Bone health in type 1 diabetes.

Proteomic Analysis of Mouse Brain Subjected to Spaceflight.

Understanding and Improving Mechanical Properties in 3D printed Parts Using a Dual-Cure Acrylate-Based Resin for Stereolithography.

Chronic kidney disease and aging differentially diminish bone material and microarchitecture in C57Bl/6 mice.

Rabbit Model of Physeal Injury for the Evaluation of Regenerative Medicine Approaches.

Spaceflight-Induced Bone Tissue Changes that Affect Bone Quality and Increase Fracture Risk.

Human articular cartilage is orthotropic where microstructure, micromechanics, and chemistry vary with depth and split-line orientation.

A 3D, Dynamically Loaded Hydrogel Model of the Osteochondral Unit to Study Osteocyte Mechanobiology.

Recombinant Human Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 Improves Spine Fusion in a Vitamin D-Deficient Rat Model.

Microgravity-induced alterations of mouse bones are compartment- and site-specific and vary with age.

The heterogeneous mechanical properties of adolescent growth plate cartilage: A study in rabbit.

A 3D printed mimetic composite for the treatment of growth plate injuries in a rabbit model.

Poroviscoelasto-plasticity of agarose-based hydrogels.

Inhibiting myostatin signaling partially mitigates structural and functional adaptations to hindlimb suspension in mice.