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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Biomater. 2014 Jun 20;10(10):4367–4376. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2014.06.021

Figure 1.

Figure 1

A flow-chart of the experimental setup for microthread fabrication with (A) and without (B) a drying phase. Threads are first extruded into a pH controlled bath solution and incubated for 10 minutes at room temperature for microthread polymerization. After polymerization, threads are removed from the bath and dried overnight on a custom-made stretching device. The next day the threads are rehydrated, static axially stretched to the desired percentage, and dried for immediate testing or storage (A). Control microthreads were immediately stretched after fibrin polymerization and dried overnight (B).