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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2013 Jan 22;34(11):2701–2709. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2013.01.036

Table 1.

Study design.

Type of scaffold Week Animals sacrificed Animals scanned (before sacrifice) Samples studied for UEI Samples for compression tests Samples for histology
PCUU 0 0 10 8 (of 20) 5 0
4 3 10 8 (of 20) 4 2
8 3 7 8 (of 14) 4 (1 hernia) 2
12 4 4 8 (of 8) (4 hernia) 6 (3 hernia) 2 (1 hernia)
PEUU 0 0 10 8 (of 20) 5 0
4 3 10 8 (of 20) 4 2
8 3 7 8 (of 14) 4 2
12 4 4 8 (of 8) 6 2
PEEUU 0 0 10 8 (of 20) 5 0
4 3 10 8 (of 20) 4 2
8 3 7 8 (of 14) 4 (2 hernia) 2 (1 hernia)
12 4 4 8 (of 8) (5 hernia) 6 (4 hernia) 2 (1 hernia)