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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 21.
Published in final edited form as: J Theor Biol. 2015 Mar 16;373:26–39. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.03.004

Figure 8.

Figure 8

(a) Comparison of the tissue-level deformations in terms of the three principal stretches between the experimental measurements and the FE predictions under equi-biaxial tension loading (r2 = 0.9896), and (b) comparison of the fibrosa-layer MVIC NAR as a function of tissue-level tension between the experimental measurement and the calculation based on a simple affine model and an assumed ellipsoidal cellular geometry, indicating that local MVICs do not simply follow the deformation of the bulk MVAL tissue.