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. 2017 Jun 28;5:36. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2017.00036

Table 1.

Summary of reported pressures.

Condition V = 0.3 µm/s
V = 3.0 µm/s
V = 30.0 µm/s
Ponset (MPa) Pmax (MPa) Pwear (MPa) Cycles at Pwear Ponset (MPa) Pmax (MPa) Pwear (MPa) Cycles at Pwear Ponset (MPa) Pmax (MPa) Pwear (MPa) Cycles at Pwear
mimLUB in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) 1.8 5.1 3.0 15 1.0 2.9 1.7 21 1.2 1.6 3.2 54
mimLUB in mimLUB 1.1 3.1 1.6 15 1.8 4.5 2.6 29 1.3 2.3 1.9 90
Fibronectin (FN) + mimLUB in PBS 0.4 0.8 1.8 3.8 3.0 54 0.6 2.2 1.8 378
FN + mimLUB in mimLUB 1.4 3.8 3.4 57 0.9 2.8 2.4 71 0.6 1.4 1.1 198
FN 0.9 49 0.41 14 1.3 188
LUBa 0.4c
FN + LUBb 4.0 4.5 14.0

Pressure at onset of interaction (Ponset), maximum pressures reached at each condition (Pmax), and pressures at onset of wear (Pwear) measured in our study. Values reported in literature for native LUB are shown for comparison. In parenthesis, shearing cycles.

aFrom Zappone et al. (2007).

bFrom Andresen Eguiluz et al. (2015).

cAt 1.0 µm/s.