Table 1.

Summary of mechanical and organizational changes that occur as agarose content increases from 0% (NoAg) to 0.25% (HiAg) for samples subjected to indentation (current study) and to uniaxial tension⁷; key similarities and differences described in text

	QPLI		Load		Relaxation		Compressibility
	ΔAngle	ΔRetard.	Peak	Relax	Rate	%	ΔVolume	Poisson's
Indentation	↑ magnitude ↓ spread	↑ magnitude ↓ spread	↑	↑	↓	← →	↓	NA
Tension	←→ magnitude	↓ magnitude	↓	↑	↓	↓	NA	↓