Mechanism Investigation of the Improvement of Chang Run Tong on the Colonic Remodeling in Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Rats

Table 2

Parameters of biomechanical properties of colon.

	Con	DM	T1	T2
Opening angle (degree)	101.45 ± 8.84	223.66 ± 21.93	159.17 ± 12.31	195.341 ± 17.22
Inner residual strain (unitless)	−0.21 ± 0.02	−0.29 ± 0.03	−0.26 ± 0.02	−0.27 ± 0.03
Outer residual strain (unitless)	0.12 ± 0.02	0.22 ± 0.03	0.12 ± 0.01	0.26 ± 0.03
Circumferential constant (kPa)	1.13 ± 0.16	2.12 ± 0.28	1.87 ± 0.3162	2.61 ± 0.38
Longitudinal constant (kPa)	25.48 ± 4.12	52.34 ± 8.73	36.13 ± 2.48	44.76 ± 5.59

Compared with Con: , ; compared with DM: , .