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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomech Model Mechanobiol. 2012 May 15;12(2):291–300. doi: 10.1007/s10237-012-0399-2

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

DIC image sequence of mechanical testing. An isolated native type I collagen fibril from bovine sclera is epoxied to calibrated (57 ± 8 nN/μm) glass microneedles, submerged in buffer, and mechanically loaded. Top Gauge length (zero-load). Bottom High-load of 1054 ± 149 nN produces 2.6 ± 0.3 % strain