Tissue Composition and Biomechanical Property Changes in the Vaginal Wall of Ovariectomized Young Rats

Table 1

Comparison of the biomechanical properties of ultimate load at failure, maximal distension and tangent modulus in the linear region between group 1 (control group) and group 4 (16 weeks after ovariectomy).

	Group 1 (n=6)	Group 4 (n=6)	P-value
Ultimate load at failure (N)	12.31±3.50	9.70±1.42	0.190
Maximal distension (mm)	67.68±20.11	61.98±17.47	0.905
Tangent modulus (MPa)	0.25±0.11	0.74±0.27	0.016

-Whitney U test. The data are presented as the mean±standard deviation.