Comparative structural and force values for common carotid arteries subjected to passive mechanical testing at 100 mmHg and 1.5 axial stretch ratio.

(a) Inner radius, (b) wall thickness, (c) area compliance, and (d) axial force from bovine, porcine, ovine, leporine, murine-rat, and murine-mouse carotid arteries. All values are mean ± STD. (*) denotes statistical significance at p ≤ 0.05 between the leftmost group and the corresponding hash-mark.