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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 5.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Biomed Eng. 2011 Mar 5;39(7):2027–2045. doi: 10.1007/s10439-011-0287-4

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Time courses of evolving medial (panel a), adventitial (panel b), and total (panel c) thicknesses for indicated values of βc. Stars denote limiting points beyond which results become singular, corresponding to unbounded luminal expansion. In all cases, medial thickness decreases slightly up to an actual age of 50 years (i.e., G&R time s = 30 years), due to loss of elastin. In contrast, adventitial thickness increases steadily throughout G&R, except the case of βc = 0.5 beyond 80 years of age. Except for the case of βc = 0.5, the media begins to thicken after 50 years of age.