Figure 5.

Plot of mean circumferential and axial Cauchy stress (upper panels) and linearized stiffness (lower panels) for all 11 groups as a function of the adjusted central systolic blood pressure (cf. Table 1). Error bars show the standard error of the mean. The light dashed line shows the best linear regression of all data whereas the dark dashed line shows the best linear regression if the four apparently “maladaptive” results (Acta2^−/−, Sgcd^−/−, and the 10–14 day and especially the 35–56 day Aortic Banding sets, which are indicated by the slash through the symbol), are excluded from the regression. See text for exclusion criteria.