Normal and fibrotic rat livers demonstrate shear strain softening and compression stiffening: A model for soft tissue mechanics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Perepelyuk, Maryna ^a   Chin, Likang ^b,c,d   Cao, Xuan ^e   Van Oosten, Anne ^b,e   Shenoy, Vivek B ^e   Janmey, Paul A ^b,c   Wells, Rebecca G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEOGLYCAN; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPRESSION STIFFENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FLOW MEASUREMENT; LIVER FIBROSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; RAT; SHEAR STRAIN SOFTENING; YOUNG MODULUS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; EXPERIMENTAL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; LIVER; MECHANICAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHEAR STRENGTH; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, EXPERIMENTAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84954055301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146588     Document Type: Article

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