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. 2004 Oct 8;88(1):661–669. doi: 10.1529/biophysj.104.048363

TABLE 1.

A summary of all the threshold force and effective viscosity (value ± 68% confidence interval) for single and double tether extraction from passive or treated neutrophils and CD4+ T-lymphocytes

Single tether
Double tether
Double/single ratio
Cell type Condition F0 (pN) ηeff (pN · s/μm) F0 (pN) ηeff (pN · s/μm) F0 ηeff
Neutrophils Passive 45 ± 6.5 1.57 ± 0.127 99 ± 10.6 2.95 ± 0.301 2.2 ± 0.6 1.9 ± 0.4
IL8 91 ± 5.0* 0.40 ± 0.054* 176 ± 8.9* 0.83 ± 0.103* 1.9 ± 0.2 2.1 ± 0.6
PMA 77 ± 4.4* 0.56 ± 0.078* 150 ± 7.5* 1.18 ± 0.196* 1.9 ± 0.2 2.1 ± 0.7
Lymphocytes Passive 46 ± 3.7 1.55 ± 0.093 84 ± 6.3 3.65 ± 0.217 1.8 ± 0.3 2.4 ± 0.3
IL8 52 ± 8.6 1.34 ± 0.199 95 ± 13.3 3.15 ± 0.541 1.8 ± 0.6 2.4 ± 0.8
PMA 69 ± 9.9* 1.03 ± 0.217* 113 ± 7.0* 2.44 ± 0.240* 1.6 ± 0.4 2.4 ± 0.8
*

Denotes a significant difference (p < 0.05) versus passive cells (Zar, 1999).