Abstract: A theoretical model is presented for the tubular heart of the stage-16 chick embryo (2.3 days of a 21-day incubation period). The model is a thick-walled, pseudoelastic cylindrical shell composed ...

Abstract: The first stress–strain measurements on embryonic cardiovascular tissue are described here, obtained from cyclic uniaxial loading of the primitive Ventricle. An excised ventricular segment from ...