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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Mater Res. 2009 Mar;24(3):638–646. doi: 10.1557/JMR.2009.0130

FIG. 6.

FIG. 6

Elastic moduli of aorta and ECM components estimated at macroscopic, microscopic, and nanoscopic (molecular) length scales. With the exception of elastin, the component ECM molecules are stiffer than the microscopic tissue structures tested in this study. These microscopic structures are, in turn, stiffer than macroscopic regions of the whole tissue. The references for the values in this figure are taken from: 1. Gozna et al.,50 2. Reddy.,51 3. Laurent et al.,55 4 and 5. values from this study, 6. Gosline45 (elastin), 7. Sherratt et al.11 (fibrillin microfibrils), 8. Gosline et al.45 (fibrillar collagen), and 9. Yang et al.46 (single collagen fibrils).