Table 1.

Mechanical and structural properties of aligned and randomly-oriented Self-Lifting Auto-generated Tissue Equivalents (A- and R-SLATEs, respectively). Tissue elastic modulus (E) and thickness, collagen fibril diameter, d-spacing, and alignment (% of fibrils oriented within 10° of parallel) represent the average ± S.D. of nine individual tissues (n = 9); ^†corresponded to p < 0.01.

Tissue	E (MPa)	Thickness (μm)	Fibril Ø (nm)	Fibril d-spacing (nm)	Aligned fibrils (%)
A-SLATEs	46 ± 22†	13.5 ± 3.3†	30.0 ± 2.7	62.9 ± 4.4	73 ± 5†
R-SLATEs	26 ± 14	9.9 ± 1.6	28.6 ± 2.9	58.4 ± 5.6	25 ± 7