1. • Jay D. Humphrey
   • Gerhard A. Holzapfel

   Editorial Pages: 1 - 2

2. Celebrating the inauguration of the journal: Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

   • Y.C. Fung

   Foreword Pages: 3 - 4

3. Force and deformation on branching rudiments: cleaving between hypotheses

   • S. R. Lubkin
   • Z. Li

   Original paper Pages: 5 - 16

4. A possible role of initial cell death due to mechanical stretch in the regulation of subsequent cell proliferation in experimental vein grafts

   • S. Q. Liu
   • Y. Y. Ruan
   • L. Zhong

   Original paper Pages: 17 - 27

5. Theoretical and experimental study of growth and remodeling in the developing heart

   • L. A. Taber
   • S. Chabert

   Original paper Pages: 29 - 43

6. Application of nonlinear viscoelastic models to describe ligament behavior

   • P. P. Provenzano
   • R. S. Lakes
   • R. Vanderby

   Original paper Pages: 45 - 57

7. Isotonic biaxial loading of fibroblast-populated collagen gels: a versatile, low-cost system for the study of mechanobiology

   • V. Knezevic
   • A. J. Sim
   • J. W. Holmes

   Original paper Pages: 59 - 67

8. Mechanobiology of engineered cartilage cultured under a quantified fluid-dynamic environment

   • M. T. Raimondi
   • F. Boschetti
   • R. Pietrabissa

   Original paper Pages: 69 - 82

9. Estimation of the effective transversely isotropic elastic constants of a material from known values of the material's orthotropic elastic constants

   • Y. J. Yoon
   • G. Yang
   • S. C. Cowin

   Original paper Pages: 83 - 93

10. Estimation of the effective transversely isotropic elastic constants of a material from known values of the material's orthotropic elastic constants

    • Y. J. Yoon
    • G. Yang
    • S. C. Cowin

    Original paper Pages: 83 - 93

11. Models of cytoskeletal mechanics of adherent cells

    • D. Stamenović
    • D. E. Ingber

    Original paper Pages: 95 - 108