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Figure 16 | BMC Cell Biology

Figure 16

From: Automated measurement of cell motility and proliferation

Figure 16

Growth curves. Area-based cell numbers (see Methods) were plotted versus time (hours) over the course of the three experiments performed for this study. Data from wells with extra-cellular matrix compound coating concentrations of 10 ug/ml (left panels) and 100 ug/ml (right panels) are shown for both cell types, KM101 cells (first and third rows) and MG-63 cells (second and fourth rows) using a normal scale (top two rows) and log scale (bottom two rows) for area-based cell numbers along the vertical axis. A datum point is plotted for each image, i.e. at every 30 minute interval. Each point represents the average from a set of triplicate wells. During the third experiment (far right hand set of curves in each chart), disengagement of the coupling for the mechanical focus was discovered and repaired; the data from that period of malfunction were removed, as evident in the 27 hour gap before the end of the third experiment in each chart. Area-doubling rates obtained from the average of the four treatments for each of the three experiments are printed above the log-scale charts. These area-doubling rates (doublings/day) are the slopes obtained from linear regression of log base 2 cell numbers versus time across time periods selected from each experiment during which the log scale curves were linear – at least 48 hours in each case. Area-doubling rates for the first experiment were significantly greater than the doubling rates for the second and third experiments (t-Test, p < 0.01).

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