Table 4 Longitudinal tensile properties of adventitia vessels cultured for 1 week.

From: Self-assembled Collagen-Fibrin Hydrogel Reinforces Tissue Engineered Adventitia Vessels Seeded with Human Fibroblasts

Hydrogel Group

Tensile Properties (kPa)

Elastic Modulus (E)

Ultimate Tensile Strength (UTS)

Failure Strength (FS)

Fibrin only

537 ± 702

18.0 ± 8.47

4.50 ± 1.38

0.7 mg/ml COL

249 ± 207

19.4 ± 11.5

4.24 ± 3.23

  1. All groups used human fibroblasts for seeding of the 6-ring stack vessels and cytokine stimulation with TGF-β and ascorbic acid.
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