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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 25.
Published in final edited form as: Med Biol Eng Comput. 2009 Aug 1;47(9):979–987. doi: 10.1007/s11517-009-0513-5

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Evolving passive axial “force-pressure” responses due to G&R for a 5% step increase in in vivo axial extension at days 0 (solid), 14 (dashed), and 1000 (dotted). The original “force-pressure” response is indicated by the solid bold curve. Response curves shifted down as the artery remodeled around its new axial length [cf. 9]. Note that by 1000 days, the passive response nearly equaled the original response, indicating a near complete recovery of the artery’s original axial “force-pressure” behavior at the new in vivo axial length.