A new paper from the Medical Device Design Group entitled A biomimetic urethral model to evaluate urinary catheter lubricity and epithelial micro-trauma has been published in Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials. In the study, Owen Humphreys et al. developed a human urethral epithelial cell-seeded model of the urethra which was then used to measure the Coefficient of Friction (CoF) of four brands of commercially-available hydrophilic-coated intermittent catheters.
