. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Aug 1.

Published in final edited form as: Ann Biomed Eng. 2020 Apr 2;48(8):2268–2278. doi: 10.1007/s10439-020-02500-5

TABLE 1.

Biaxial geometric and mechanical metrics of loaded and unloaded murine infrarenal aortas following intraluminal perfusion at 0 U/mL (control), 0.5 U/mL, or 10 U/mL of porcine pancreatic elastase for 30 min.

	0 U/mL	0.5 U/mL	10 U/mL
D (μm)	649.5 ± 31.1	675.2 ± 29.6**	949.6 ± 76.0*^
H (μm)	112.9 ± 14.2	67.29 ± 1.92**	64.01 ± 5.70**
Λ (%)	–	1.59 ± 0.05	1.66 ± 0.07
δ (%)	–	12.0 ± 3.0	24.0 ± 1.0^
d (μm)	861.1 ± 28.4	992.0 ± 35.7**	1084 ± 44.2**^
h (μm)	71.14 ± 3.26	55.30 ± 5.95**	49.68 ± 6.66**
f (mN)	10.37 ± 1.1	12.96 ± 7.77	22.63 ± 0.66**^
c (10⁻⁸ m²/kPa)	1.24 ± 0.23	0.98 ± 0.32	0.84 ± 0.21*
λ_θ	1.5 ± 0.04	1.45 ± 0.03**	1.17 ± 0.06**^
σ_θ (kPa)	70.24 ± 6.36	108.2 ± 11.8**	134.5 ± 15.2**^
σ_z (kPa)	59.35 ± 4.14	92.27 ± 63.2	192.1 ± 96.7**

(**) and (*) denote statistical differences from the control at p-val < 0.10 and < 0.05 respectively, while (^) denotes differences between experimental groups at p-val < 0.05.