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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 22.
Published in final edited form as: Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2011 Sep 28;414(2):431–436. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.09.107

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Collagen content, tensile stiffness, and tensile strength of self-assembled constructs. (A) Collagen/WW for all groups. Ribose treatment during All Weeks had the highest collagen/WW (104% > control), followed by Week 2 (53% > control). (B) Tensile stiffness for all groups. The highest Young's moduli were found in All Weeks (66% > control), followed by Week 2 (44% > control). Week 1 had the lowest Young's moduli (36% < control). (C) Tensile strength for all groups. All Weeks had the highest UTS (126% > control), followed by Week 2 (50% > control). UTS trends appeared to reflect collagen/WW trends. Data are presented as means ± standard deviations. Groups not connected by the same letter are significantly different (p<0.05).