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Published in final edited form as: Biomech Model Mechanobiol. 2015 Jul 29;15(3):579–592. doi: 10.1007/s10237-015-0711-z

Table 1.

Best-fit parameters for the passive and active tension-stretch behavior based on experimental data from individual arterial rings excised from mouse proximal descending thoracic aorta (n = 16 for control rings and n = 8 for rings adapted at either low stretch (LS) or near optimal stretch (OS)). Shown, too, are normalized changes (“after” relative to “before”) in the active tension-stretch behavior for each type of test following adaptation.

	a [mN/mm]	b [-]	c [-]	a_after/a_before	b_after/b_before	c_after/c_before	A [mN/mm]	B [-]
Control	1.438 ± 0.039	1.604 ± 0.036	0.431 ± 0.123	-	-	-	3.835 ± 0.413	1.430 ± 0.103
Adapt LS	1.065 ± 0.050	1.544 ± 0.060	0.650 ± 0.091	0.736 ± 0.020	0.947 ± 0.029	1.541 ± 0.282	3.421 ± 0.720	1.519 ± 0.123
Adapt OS	1.415 ± 0.083	1.5785 ± 0.023	0.413 ± 0.022	0.9856 ± 0.020	1.0059 ± 0.022	1.0676 ± 0.093	3.493 ± 0.614	1.571 ± 0.141