Table 2.
Effects of strains at various frequencies on MSCs.
Function | Uniaxial stretch | Radial stretch | ||||||||||||||||
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0.1 Hz | 0.5 Hz | 1.0 Hz | 0.1 Hz | 0.5 Hz | 1.0 Hz | |||||||||||||
5% | 10% | 15% | 5% | 10% | 15% | 5% | 10% | 15% | 5% | 10% | 15% | 5% | 10% | 15% | 5% | 10% | 15% | |
(strain) | (strain) | (strain) | (strain) | (strain) | (strain) | |||||||||||||
Proliferation | ↓ | ↓ | ↓ | ↑ | ↑ | ↑ | ↓ | ↑ | ↓ | ↑ | ↑ | ↑ | ↓ | ↓ | ↓ | — | — | ↓ |
Collagen | ↓ | ↓ | ↓ | ↑ | ↑ | ↑ | ↓ | ↑ | ↓ | ↑ | ↑ | ↑ | ↓ | ↓ | ↓ | — | — | ↓ |
“↑”: increase; “↓”: decrease; “—”: no difference (p < 0.05).