Biophysical Journal 16: 281-290 (1976)
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Effect of age on passive elastic stiffness of rat heart muscle.

ABSTRACT

A thick-wall spherical model for the rat left ventricle was used to deduce passive wall stiffness from diastolic pressure-volume data. This was done for rats in three age classes: young (1 mo), adult (17 mo) and old (17 mo). The model was based on finite deformation elasticity theory consistent with the magnitude of observed deformation. A least-squares procedure was used to determine elastic constants in postulated nonlinear stress-stretch relations for the myocardium. It was found that at a given level of stress, wall stiffness for ventricles in the young age class was consistently greater than wall stiffness in the other two classes. In addition, the difference in wall stiffness between rats in the adult and old age classes was found to be approximately 10%.

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