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. 2011 Feb 15;20(8):1225–1232. doi: 10.1007/s00586-011-1704-y

Fig. 13.

Fig. 13

ad Illustrates schematically the effect of ring-severing and stretching on the morphological response of the nucleus fibres. Note how the longest, most convoluted fibres in the middle of the nucleus progressively unfold with increasing extension while the shorter fibres on the edge of the nucleus are the first to undergo tensile realignment and then failure