. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 6.

Published in final edited form as: Exp Eye Res. 2016 Jul 19;158:3–12. doi: 10.1016/j.exer.2016.07.011

Table 2:

TM stiffnesses reported to date, Bold values are most methodologically comparable.

Method		Tissue	Modulus (kPa)	Reference
Direct	Compressive (AFM)	Human TM (JCT, normal)	4.0 ± 2.2^a	Last et al.
		Human TM (JCT, glaucomatous)	80.8 ± 32.5^a	Last et al.
		Porcine TM	1.38ⁿ	Yuan et al.
		Rabbit TM	1.03 ± 0.55^a	Raghunathan et al.
		Rabbit TM (DEX treated)	3.89 ± 2.55^a	Raghunathan et al.
		Rat TM	0.162 ± 0.0012^b	Huang et al.
		mouse TM (C57BL/6J)	3.22 ± 1.84^a	This study
		mouse TM (CBA/J)	3.84 ± 3.37^a	This study
	Tensile (uniaxial tension test)	Human TM (normal)	51500 ± 13600^b	Camras et al.
		Human TM (glaucomatous)	12500 ± 1400^b	Camras et al.
		Porcine TM	2490 ± 1.5^b	Camras et al.
Indirect	Beam-bending model	Human TM (in-vivo)	128ⁿ	Johnson et al.
Indirect	Beam-bending model	Mouse TM	2.16ⁿ	Li et al.

: mean ± SD;

: geometric mean ± geometric SE;

ⁿ

: not specified.