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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2015 Jun 26;48(12):3299–3305. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2015.06.006

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Load decay ratio, normalized to the average intact value, for intact rat tail tendons and fascicles and those tested after introduction of overlapping lacerations. The lacerated fascicles demonstrated an increase in load decay ratio compared to the intact fascicle, while the lacerated tendon had a smaller load decay ratio than the intact tendon (though not significant; p=0.22). Data for whole tendon were measured by Kondratko-Mittnacht as a part of (Kondratko-Mittnacht et al., 2015). An asterisk (*) indicates significance (p≤0.05).