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

Figure 4

Mean specific MDFs () (see (4)) of PNCs (black), MC3T3 (light gray), and Scc (dark gray) on silicon nitride (a), PEI (b), PEI/laminin (c), and PDL/laminin (d) surfaces. 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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