Table 2.
The meta-analysis results are depicted
| Tissue group | Samples | Groups | PME | Standard error | Confidence interval (95%) | I2 | p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower limit | Upper limit | ||||||||
| Emod | All* | 535 | 18 | 64.3 | 9.4 | 45.9 | 82.6 | 15.5 | 0.000 |
| Cranial only* | 529 | 16 | 64.6 | 9.9 | 45.3 | 84.0 | 13.3 | 0.000 | |
| Cranial only (fresh) | 446 | 11 | 68.1 | 13.1 | 42.3 | 94.0 | 0 | 0.000 | |
| Cranial, RT, air (fresh) | 271 | 4 | 62.8 | 6.0 | 51.1 | 74.5 | 0 | 0.000 | |
| Cranial, 37 °C, solution (fresh) | 45 | 3 | 61.7 | 1.7 | 58.5 | 65.0 | 0 | 0.000 | |
| UTS | All* | 549 | 18 | 7.1 | 0.4 | 6.3 | 7.8 | 84.4 | 0.000 |
| Cranial only* | 529 | 16 | 6.9 | 0.4 | 6.2 | 7.6 | 57.5 | 0.000 | |
| Cranial only (fresh) | 446 | 11 | 7.2 | 0.4 | 6.4 | 8.1 | 58.2 | 0.000 | |
| Cranial, RT, air (fresh) | 271 | 4 | 6.4 | 0.3 | 5.9 | 7.0 | 0.3 | 0.000 | |
| Cranial, 37 °C, solution (fresh) | 45 | 3 | 8.0 | 0.8 | 6.4 | 9.6 | 0 | 0.000 | |
| SFmax | All | 503 | 15 | 18.0 | 3.6 | 11.0 | 25.0 | 0 | 0.000 |
| Cranial only* | 497 | 13 | 15.0 | 3.8 | 7.6 | 22.3 | 0 | 0.000 | |
| Cranial (fresh) | 429 | 9 | 14.4 | 4.0 | 6.4 | 22.3 | 0 | 0.000 | |
| Cranial, RT, air (fresh) | 271 | 4 | 12.5 | 1.6 | 9.3 | 15.7 | 0 | 0.000 | |
Emod elastic modulus, RT room temperature, SFmax strain at maximum force, UTS ultimate tensile strength, PME pooled mean estimate
*Including all forms of preservation between tissue retrieval and testing