Effects of mechanical stretching on the morphology of extracellular polymers and the mRNA expression of collagens and small leucine-rich repeat proteoglycans in vaginal fibroblasts from women with pelvic organ prolapse

• Sumei Wang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhenyuzhang@ccmu.edu.cn (ZZ); sumeiwang@ccmu.edu.cn (SW); jiaxy@hotmail.com (XJ)

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0512-5577

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• Dongyuan Lü,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Biomechanics and Bioengineering, Key Laboratory of Microgravity (National Microgravity Laboratory) and Beijing Key Laboratory of Engineered Construction and Mechanobiology, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Zhenyu Zhang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhenyuzhang@ccmu.edu.cn (ZZ); sumeiwang@ccmu.edu.cn (SW); jiaxy@hotmail.com (XJ)

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

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• Xingyuan Jia ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhenyuzhang@ccmu.edu.cn (ZZ); sumeiwang@ccmu.edu.cn (SW); jiaxy@hotmail.com (XJ)

  Affiliation Medical Research Center, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

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• Lei Yang

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Medical Research Center, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

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