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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Feb 19.
Published in final edited form as: Matrix Biol. 2011 Sep 24;31(1):57–65. doi: 10.1016/j.matbio.2011.09.001

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Apparatus and method used to quantify pseudo-dynamic modulus in myometrial and leiomyoma surgically obtained tissue samples. a: Schematic of the experimental confined compression apparatus with a porous membrane (40 micron pore size). A 5% constant displacement uniaxial load was applied to the myometrial and leiomyoma tissue. The confined compression chamber was smooth, rigid, and impermeable. b: Representative Force versus Displacement graph for a single leiomyoma specimen.