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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin. 2008 Oct;11(5):525–538. doi: 10.1080/10255840801930710

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Effects of elastin production time on opening angles in cylinder model C2. (A) Pressure P, flow rate Q, and three example elastin production-rate curves (a, b, c) are plotted as functions of time during development. Time is normalized by the time of birth. (B) Opening angle plotted as a function of peak elastin production time. (C) Axial stretch ratio plotted as a function of time for cases a, b, and c. (D) Axial stress of smooth muscle at inner radius of artery plotted as a function of time for cases a, b, and c. Circles in B–D indicate the peak elastin production time for cases a, b, and c.