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. 2020 Feb 28;11(1):13. doi: 10.3390/jfb11010013

Table 1.

Base case flow and metabolism parameters.

Parameter Characteristic (SI) Unit STARS Unit
Sinusoid Porosity Φsin 0.7854 0.7854
Sinusoid Permeability Ksin 1.125 μm2 1.140 Darcy
Sinusoid Effective Diffusion Dsin 4.2 × 10−10 m2/s 2.5 × 10−4 cm2/min
Tissue Effective Diffusion Dtis 4.2 × 10−11 m2/s 2.5 × 10−5 cm2/min
Maximum Rate vmax * 0.06 μM/min 1.08 × 10−9 molefrac/min
Half Saturation Constant Km * 10.0 μM 1.8 × 10−7 molfrac
Linear Rate vmax/Km * 6.0 × 10−3 min−1 6.0 × 10−3 min−1
Blood Viscosity 3.5 × 10−3 Pa s 3.5 cpoise
Young’s Modulus E 5 × 103 Pa 5 kPa
Poisson’s Ratio, v 0.35 0.35
Biot’s Constant, α 1.0 1.0
Skempton’s Coefficient Sk 1.0 1.0
(1 Darcy = 0.9869 µm2 in engineering permeability units)
* Paclitaxel kinetic elimination Michaelis–Menten parameters converted from Vaclavikova et al. [239], their Table 4.