. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: Cardiovasc Eng Technol. 2016 Aug 9;7(4):309–351. doi: 10.1007/s13239-016-0276-8

TABLE 2.

Biaxial data for native and fixed bovine pericardium.

Group	Strain at fixation	Max. strain	Thickness (μm)	Peak stress (kPa)		Max. tangent modulus (MPa)
Group	Strain at fixation	Max. strain	Thickness (μm)	PD	XD	PD	XD
Control	N/A	0.16	343 ± 10	323.18 ± 22.56	107.12 ± 6.75	14.96 ± 2.77	2.8 ± 0.35
GLFF	Free	0.16	781 ± 114	168.73 ± 9.74	96.66 ± 8.09	3.27 ± 0.25	1.31 ± 0.18
GLPS	0.22	0.06	430 ± 81	429.47 ± 49.28	122.46 ± 5.00	39.89 ± 11.14	1.28 ± 0.2
POFF	Free	0.16	719 ± 77	66.17 ± 2.31	37.53 ± 5.16	1.22 ± 0.06	0.46 ± 0.1
POPS	0.22	0.16	512 ± 91	125.34 ± 11.29	43.57 ± 2.98	2.43 ± 0.31	0.42 ± 0.05

Thickness values are ± SD, peak stress and MTM are ± SEM.¹⁶³