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. 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 7.

Cantilever method for porcine aortic valve tissue, n = 10, ± SEM. Adapted from Mirnajafi et al.140

Forward direction Reverse direction
Effective modulus, E, at flexure angle of 30° (kPa) 42.73 ± 4.44 75.01 ± 14.53
dE/dϕ (kPa/°) −2.24 ± 0.6   −1.9 ± 0.3