Lyle F. Mockros

TL;DR: Solutions for the indentation of the layer by the plane end of a rigid circular cylinder and by a rigid sphere are suggested as useful for the determination of the elastic shear modulus of intact cartilage.

TL;DR: Clot rigidity was enhanced by increasing fiber and branchpoint densities at greater fibrinogen concentrations, and network morphology is only minimally altered by the FXIIIa-catalyzed cross-linking reaction, which seems to augment clot rigidity most likely by the stiffening of existing fibers.

TL;DR: The quantitative results were independent of tube surface-volume ratio, but were dependent on both level of shear stress and on residence time.

TL;DR: The short-time shear modulus of articular cartilage, including both healthy and diseased samples, were found to vary over the range 4–35 × 105 N/m2 and the short- time bulk modulus over therange 9–170 × 106 N/ m2, and the means of tissue storage was found to have a major effect on the measured mechanical properties.

TL;DR: It is indicated that the FXIIIa-induced dimeric cross-linking of gamma-chains by itself is not sufficient to stiffen the fibrin networks, and the augmentation of clot rigidity was more strongly correlated with the formation of Gamma-multimers, alpha(n)-polymers, and alpha(p)gamma(q)-hybrid cross-links.