To My Readers
I would like to apologize for being absent for so long and being extremely inconsistent with my posts. I want to thank all of my loyal readers for consistently visiting my site during this “dry spell” of articles. For all of my readers, I have a new look for my website, courtesy of Joey Dehnert at Blockbot Webdesign. I would also like to thank the wonderful folks at Single Grain for consistently optimizing my website to bring readers like you to AmyShah.com. I hope this new website is easier to navigate through and more appealing to the eye, if you have any complaints, suggestions, or comments about it, please contact me.
I have been away from my website conducting tissue engineering research in Dr. Steven George’s lab at UC Irvine. I am working with fibrin gels and three types of human cells to create a three-dimensional matrix and grow capillaries. My work has been stemming off the work from this publication in which the three-dimensional model that I am optimizing was designed. The three different types of cells that I am using are Normal Human Lung Fibroblasts (NHLF), Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells (HUVEC), and Normal Human Bronchial Epithelial cells (NHBE). The capillaries sprout from HUVECs grown on beads in a fibrin gel with NHLFs. The NHBEs are only utilized when I am ready to compress the model to induce an asthma attack on the tissues. If you have any questions feel free to contact me. I hope you will enjoy the new and improved AmyShah.com. Thank you.
-Amy
