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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mech Behav Biomed Mater. 2019 Apr 17;96:165–171. doi: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2019.04.014

Fig. 5. Tangent modulus at physiologic stress.

Fig. 5.

The tangent modulus of sham non-infarcted hearts, saline-injected infarcted hearts (PBS), and therapy-treated infarcted hearts (ESA) is calculated at 19.1 kPa, the estimated pathophysiologic wall stress of a rat left ventricle (LV) 4 weeks after myocardial infarction. ** indicates p-value < 0.01. *** indicates p-value < 0.001. Hearts in the ESA group were significantly less stiff than hearts in the PBS group, and had similar modulus as hearts in the sham group.