Fig. 4.

Overview of the compressive loading bioreactor. (a) One fully assembled compressive loading frame with 3 polycarbonate bioreactor chambers. (b) One compressive loading frame (blue outline) in a standard incubator (red outline). A peristaltic pump (green outline) sits on top of the incubator. Pump tubing and electrical wires are routed through a hole in the top corner of the incubator (yellow arrow points to this location). (For interpretation of the references to color in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)