Table 2.

Summary of the effects of solid mechanical stimuli on the early stages of angiogenesis. Effects are listed as positive for angiogenesis when increased. The second column further subdivides the stimuli to improve readability: late and early cyclic compression are as defined in [246]. Colour code: presence (black), low (blue)/physiological (brown)/high (purple). Symbols: ? no information, ↑ increase, ↓ decrease, × contradictory effects, - no effect/minor effect, ⊲ gradient, || parallel, ⊥ perpendicular. Striped background means hypothesis. Growing arrows imply magnitude correlation.