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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 16.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2017 Jul 25;61:199–207. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2017.07.011

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Representative preliminary mechanical tests in newborn Eln+/+ AA to investigate the effects of pressurization rate and repeatability. Time vs. pressure (A) and time vs. outer diameter (B) show constant loading and unloading rates for the first two cycles, then step pressurization rates for the loading portion only of the next four cycles. After the fourth cycle, a 60 sec wait time was implemented between cycles to allow the diameter to return to a stable unloaded value. The resulting outer diameter-pressure curves (C) do not vary with pressurization rate and are highly repeatable for each cycle number.