In Vitro Toxic Effect of Biomaterials Coated with Silver Tungstate or Silver Molybdate Microcrystals

Table 1

Mean (standard deviation) of living cell percentages compared to control, obtained in the different tests, according to the biomaterial and the employed coating.

Cytotoxic assay	Material	Coating
		Ag2WO4	Ag2MoO4	Without coating
Alamar	Ti	77.3 (2.6)^aA	73.3 (1.8)^aA	96.9 (2.1)^bB†
	Zi	73.4 (1.2)^aA	69.2 (1.2)^aA	88.6 (1.3)^aB
	AR	76.7 (1.6)^aA	74.3 (1.0)^aA	88.6 (1.8)^aB
MTT	Ti	73.7 (2.8)^bA	76.3 (3.4)^aAB	84.2 (0.3)^aB
	Zi	63.7 (2.6)^aA	61.2 (2.8)^bA	85.2 (5.4)^aB
	AR	72.5 (3.9)^abA	71.0 (1.2)^abA	82.6 (3.1)^aB
CytoTox-ONE	Ti	66.8 (0.8)^aA	63.5 (1.8)^bA	86.4 (2.2)^aB
	Zi	63.7 (4.0)^aB	53.3 (2.1)^aA	75.2 (2.2)^bC
	AR	65.1 (1.6)^aB	59.2 (1.4)^abA	81.6 (1.1)^aC

Means followed by the same letter (uppercase in line or lowercase in the column) were not significantly different (Tukey test: ). ^†Not significantly different from the living cell control.