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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 10.
Published in final edited form as: Cell Biophys. 1990 Dec;17(3):243–256. doi: 10.1007/BF02990720

Table 3.

Mechanical stress induces a local concentration of polymerized actin in mechanically stressed cells

Cell treatment Mean cell fluorescence Maximum local fluorescence Number of studied cells
None (control) 51.4 ± 2.7 81.6 ±5.6 11
Pipette aspiration 55.7±2.6 128±8.5 (P<0.001) 14

Eleven control cells and fourteen cells that had been subjected for 4 minutes to micropipette aspiration were fixed and microfilaments were stained with NBD-phallaciding. Mean cell fluorescence and maximum pixel fluorescence were then recorded under the same conditions. Mean values are shown (using arbitrary units) ± Standard Error.