Compression of pancreatic tumor blood vessels by hyaluronan is caused by solid stress and not interstitial fluid pressure

Affiliations

• ¹ Edwin L. Steele Laboratory, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
• ² Department of Surgery, Pancreas and Biliary Surgery Program, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
• ³ Cancer Center and Center for Regenerative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Cancer Biology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
• ⁵ Edwin L. Steele Laboratory, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Electronic address: jain@steele.mgh.harvard.edu.