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How do the planar biaxial mechanical properties of fibrin-based tissue-engineered heart valve leaflets compare to native porcine aortic valve leaflets?
How do the planar biaxial mechanical properties of fibrin-based tissue-engineered heart valve leaflets compare to native porcine aortic valve leaflets?
Fibrin-based tissue-engineered heart valve leaflets exhibit fundamental differences in mechanical response to biaxial tension compared to native porcine aortic valves, highlighting the need to test across a range of strain ratios for mathematical modeling.
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Mechanical mismatches in engineered versus native leaflets under biaxial strain caution translation; leaves open durability and modeling refinements.
Robinson et al. (2009) studied this question.
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