Table 2.

Strain dependence of specific proportions of GAGs retained within collagen gels seeded with leaflet or chordal cells.

		Unconstrained	Statically constrained	Cyclic 2%	Cyclic 5%	Cyclic 10%
Leaflet	% HA	12.6±0.7	11.3±1.4†	24.7±8.7*	19.3±8.4*	15.0±2.7*
	% 6-S	14.3±2.0*	11.8±2.5*	12.0±4.1*	11.0±1.2 y	13.1±1.4 y
	% 4-S	73.1±1.3	77.0±4.0†	63.4±6.6*	69.7±9.5*	71.9±1.7*x
Chordae	% HA	12.4±0.7	11.6±1.5	4.9±4.0	4.0±1.6	2.6±0.5
	% 6-S	18.4±1.1	18.4±1.1	18.8±1.8	13.7±1.3†‡y	14.0±1.7†‡ y
	% 4-S	66.6±0.2	70.0±0.5φ	76.3±4.5	82.3±1.5‡	83.4±1.7‡x

Data are mean percentage ± standard deviation.

^*p<0.007 vs. chordae,

^†p<0.04 vs. 2%,

^‡p<0.01 vs. unconstrained,

^φp<0.03 vs. 10%.

When leaflet and chordal data were grouped together,

^xp<0.02 vs. 2%,

^yp<0.04 vs. unconstrained.