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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Biomater. 2020 Nov 21;121:431–443. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2020.11.025

Figure 2:

Figure 2:

Kinematics of the artery demonstrating (A) stress-free configuration obtained by radially opening the artery into a sector, and cutting out a longitudinal strip, (B) load-free configuration with no internal pressure or longitudinal pre-stretch, and (C) the in vivo loaded state. Note that in the stress-free state, the longitudinal strip curves intimal outward[52], while the radially-cut ring curves intimal inward. The grid size in the inserts is 1mm. Green overlaid circles were used for morphometric analysis.