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Chapters
- 00:05Title
- 00:51Preparation of a Skin Specimen
- 01:40Tensile Testing
- 03:23Preparation of Cartilage and Compressive Indentation Testing
- 05:01Results: Biomechanical Characterization of Skin and Cartilage
- 06:14Conclusion
Tissue biomechanics is important for maintaining cell shape and function and for determining phenotype. This report demonstrates non-destructive mechanical protocols for characterizing elastic and viscoelastic properties of human soft tissues, which can be directly applied to tissue-engineered substrates to allow a close matching of engineered materials to native tissue.
