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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mech Behav Biomed Mater. 2013 Sep 8;29:10.1016/j.jmbbm.2013.08.025. doi: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2013.08.025

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Schematic of the pressure-infusion system used in this study. In the experiments, the endocervix was ligated with a nylon suture to prevent transmission of fluid to the uterine horns, while the vaginal introitus was secured with a nylon ligature to the infusion tubing to create a hermetic seal. The inner chamber of the bath was filled with Krebs-Henseleit buffer and the outer chamber was filled with circulating water at 37°C. A stepper motor was used to fill the vaginal vault at a rate of 0.05ml/min, and the resulting change in the vaginal vault pressure was measured using a transducer.