Table 4.

Strain dependence of specific proportions of GAGs secreted into culture medium surrounding collagen gels seeded with leaflet or chordal cells.

		Unconstrained	Statically constrained	Cyclic 2%	Cyclic 5%	Cyclic 10%
Leaflet	% HA	56.3±8.1	51.5±13.5*	48.2±5.6	49.5±4.1	60.1±5.6*
	% 6-S	11.1±1.4	12.4±2.6*	10.4±1.2	8.9±0.3*x	10.6±1.0
	% 4-S	27.0±6.4	32.9±9.3	38.7±3.2	39.4±3.9†	29.8±5.3*
Chordae	% HA	49.8±15.1	36.2±4.6	46.8±4.8	40.9±5.8	43.1±10.8
	% 6-S	14.7±0.6	19.2±0.3	12.9±3.3	12.9±4.9x	12.0±3.1‡
	% 4-S	30.9±11.3	39.6±4.9	37.2±4.9	43.3±4.3	38.5±6.3

Data are mean ± standard deviation.

^*p<0.05 vs. chordae,

^‡p<0.04 vs. statically constrained,

^†p<0.01 vs. unconstrained.

When leaflet and chordal data were grouped together,

^xp<0.05 vs. statically constrained.