Christopher A. Rock

Glycation and Serum Albumin Infiltration Contribute to the Structural Degeneration of Bioprosthetic Heart Valves

A. Frasca, Yingfei Xue, Alexander P. Kossar et al. · JACC Basic to Translational Science · 2020 · 34 citations · Full text

Heart Failure, Pathology, Biomedical Engineering +19

Complex Collagen Fiber and Membrane Morphologies of the Whole Porcine Aortic Valve

Christopher A. Rock, Lin Han, Todd C. Doehring · PLoS ONE · 2014 · 26 citations · Full text

Model studies of advanced glycation end product modification of heterograft biomaterials: The effects of in vitro glucose, glyoxal, and serum albumin on collagen structure and mechanical properties

Christopher A. Rock, Samuel Keeney, Andrey Zakharchenko et al. · Acta Biomaterialia · 2021 · 12 citations · Full text

Tissue Engineering, Engineering, Heterograft Biomaterials +12

Poly-2-methyl-2-oxazoline–modified bioprosthetic heart valve leaflets have enhanced biocompatibility and resist structural degeneration

Andrey Zakharchenko, Yingfei Xue, Samuel Keeney et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2022 · 11 citations · Full text

Inhibition of advanced glycation end product formation and serum protein infiltration in bioprosthetic heart valve leaflets: Investigations of anti-glycation agents and anticalcification interactions with ethanol pretreatment

Andrey Zakharchenko, Christopher A. Rock, T. Thomas et al. · Biomaterials · 2022 · 11 citations · Full text

Heart Failure, Engineering, Aging +18