Mechanical Properties of Cervical Spinal Cord in Neonatal Piglet: In Vitro

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Anita Singh Rachel Magee Sriram Balasubramanian

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Anita Singh
Widener University, School of Engineering, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

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The response of neonatal spinal cord tissue to tensile loading is not well-studied. In this study, isolated fresh neonatal cervical spinal cord samples, obtained from twelve 2-4 days old piglets, were tested in uniaxial tension at a rate of 500 mm/min until failure. Maximum load, maximum stress, percentage strain at maximum stress and modulus of elasticity were reported to be 14.6±3.4 N, 0.34±0.11 MPa, 29.3±5.4% and 1.52±0.8 MPa, respectively. These data can help understand the biomechanical behavior of the spinal cord in neonates and can be further used in computational modeling to understand injury mechanisms better and help develop injury prevention strategies.

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Research Article

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Received: Thu 07, May 2020
Accepted: Fri 22, May 2020
Published: Thu 28, May 2020

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© 2023 Anita Singh. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.NNB.2020.02.08