Figure 2.
Schematic illustration of cell adhesion and proliferation kinetics identifying quantitative parameters that can be extracted from measurement of number of attached cells (expressed here as percentage of (viable) cell inoculum; %I) with time. %Imax is the maximum percentage of a cell inoculum that adheres to a surface from a sessile cell suspension and t1/2 measures half-time to %Imax. The proliferation rate (k) and cell-number doubling time (td) measure viability of attached cells (adapted from ref. [60]).