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. 2019 Jun 18;13:613. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00613

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Copyright © 2019 Kim, Schmidt, Deemie, Wycech, Liang and Giszter.

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Samples of suture like BMEPs and BMEPs with various cores. (A1,A2) BMEP (6 × 1 × 9.6 μm) over a 10-0 suture. (A1) The zoomed-in photo in the area of the blue dotted square box in A2. BMEP D_out (measured outer diameter) = 99 μm. (A2) The full shot of BMEP over 10-0 suture. The length of BMEP between two orange arrows is 1.4 cm. (B1,B2) BMEP (6 × 1 × 9.6 μm) over a 5-0 suture. (B1) The zoomed-in photo in the area of blue dotted square box in B2. BMEP D_out = 200 μm. (B2) The full shot of BMEP over 5-0 suture. The length of BMEP between two orange arrows is 4 cm. (C) Loose BMEP (6 × 1 × 9.6 μm) without any core. BMEP D_out = 66 μm. (D) Tight BMEP (6 × 9.6 μm) without any core. BMEP D_out = 69 μm. (E) BMEP (6 × 2 × 9.6 μm) without any core. BMEP D_out = 93 μm. (F) BMEP (12 × 1 × 9.6 μm) without any core. BMEP D_out = 129 μm. (G) BMEP (6 × 1 × 12.7 μm) with a plastic rod. (H) BMEP (6 × 1 × 12.7 μm) with a silicone sheet.