Table 1.
Summary of experimental results. The humans were subdivided into three age groups based on clusters in the data. The separation enables easy comparison of young human data to the non-human primate data.
| Species | n | Postmortem Time (days) |
Age (years) | Young’s modulus of elasticity (kPa) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cynomolgus Monkey |
9 | 0.7±0.7 (0.25–2.1) |
7.2±0.7 (5.9–8) |
33.7±33.1 (9.19–117) |
| Hamadryas Baboon |
8 | 1.0±0.5 (0.25–2) |
6.5±3.2 (2.8–10.1) |
33.3±16.7 (13.1–62.4) |
| Young Human (<45 years) |
4 | 4.4±2.0 (2–6) |
36±3.6 (33–41) |
28.7±6.7 (21.5–36.3) |
| Mid-Age Human (45–70 years) |
9 | 5.0±3.8 (1–12) |
61±6.4 (53–67) |
47.7±10.4 (31.1–62.0) |
| Old Human (>70 years) |
5 | 3.8±1.5 (2–5) |
76±3.6 (71–79) |
86.5±37.6 (39.6–131) |