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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Aug 8.
Published in final edited form as: Biomed Microdevices. 2019 Mar 25;21(2):33. doi: 10.1007/s10544-019-0368-y

Table 4 -.

Parameters depending on ECM type taken from (Sciumè et al. 2014b), redrawn with permission from (Santagiuliana et al. 2016)

Parameter Symbol Value Unit
Density of the solid phase ρs 1000 kg/m3
Poisson’ ratio of the ECM ν 0.4
Young’s modulus of the ECM EEZ 2·102
EMZ 3·102 Pa
EDZ 1·102
Volume fraction of ECM (initial) εEZs 0.2
εMzs 0.3
εDzs 0.1
Coefficient a in eqs (23) aEZ 590
aMZ 516 Pa
aDZ 664
Intrinsic permeability kEZ 1.80·10−15
kMZ 1.21·10−15 m2
kDZ 2.56·10−15
Yield effective stress limit teffs,y 0.5·101 Pa
Viscosity η 5 Pa·sec
Hardening modulus H 1.0·102 Pa