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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 21.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2015 Sep 11;73:175–184. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2015.09.016

Table 1.

Tensile mechanical and biochemical properties of engineered tissue tube developed from ovine and human dermal fibroblast (oDF & hDF)

Property Ovine Aortic Valve Leaflet Ovine Tubular TEHV Human Tubular TEHV
Thickness 0.37±0.06 mm 1.2±0.1 mm 0.8±0.1 mm
UTS (circumferential) 1.9±0.6 MPa 1.5±0.8 MPa 2.2±0.6 MPa
Modulus (Circumferential) 3.4±1.1 MPa 4.2±0.3 MPa 4.2±0.7 MPa
Anisotropy 2.8±0.9 3.1±0.2 2.0±0.3
Collagen Concentration 54±7 mg/cm3 38±4 mg/cm3 38±9 mg/cm3
Protein Concentration 70±11 mg/cm3 63±7 mg/cm3 56±6 mg/cm3
DNA content 621±55 μg/cm3 4±4 μg/cm3 7±3 μg/cm3
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