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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Matrix Biol. 2009 Aug 29;29(1):51–62. doi: 10.1016/j.matbio.2009.08.004

Fig. 2. Schematic of experimental design.

Fig. 2

Cell-laden PEG-only and PEG-ChS gels were cultured under free swelling conditions for 6 hours to allow the cells to adjust to their new environment. The constructs were then cultured under free swelling, uncompressed controls or dynamically loaded (0.3Hz and 15% amplitude strain) conditions for 6 hours. The uncompressed control samples were placed under conditions, which mimic the bioreactor, but not subjected to compressive loading. The constructs were removed from the bioreactor and cultured under free swelling conditions for an additional 36 hours.