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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Surg Res. 2009 Jan 24;160(2):333–339. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2008.12.033

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Determination of optimal tension for the each reporter strain. A. Percent decrease in tension observed during equilibration at each level of applied tension (n=8 for each). *p<0.05 from 10%; B. Mean peak contractile tension generated following addition of 100mM KCl is shown here (n=7 for MMP-2, n=8 for MMP-9). *p<0.05 from 0.4 g. Together these data define the optimal tension for the MMP-2 and MMP-9 reporter strains (0.7 g in each strain).