This review highlights the similarities in design features and performance of various engineering systems used for the mechanical testing of soft animal tissues in vitro.
Similarities may simplify in vitro muscle testing platform selection; leaves open effects on physiological fidelity and reproducibility.
This paper contains a review of the systems developed for testing skeletal muscle in vitro and it demonstrates how many of the design features and performance figures obtained are similar even though a range of engineering techniques have been used. The main topic considered is the uniaxial testing of skeletal muscle but it is also shown, by example, that similar ideas have been incorporated into machines for the uniaxial and multi-axial testing of other soft tissues.
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