Surface Coatings Modulate the Differences in the Adhesion Forces of Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Cells as Detected by Single Cell Force Microscopy

Figure 2

Mean measurement MDFs () of the three cell types, PNCs (black, n=12), MC3T3 (light gray, n=14), and Scc (dark gray, n=10), on the silicon nitride reference surface for contact times of 1, 2, and 5 seconds (a). on PEI, PEI/laminin, and PDL/laminin surfaces for the same cells (PNCs, n=10; MC3T3, n=9; Scc, n=9) are presented in (b), (c), and (d). The measurement data are given in the supplementary material (Table S1). The statistical differences in the characteristic MDF behavior of the cell types were analyzed by two-way variance analyses (Table 1).

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