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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 8.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Res. 2009 Mar 10;69(6):2260–2268. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-5575

Table 1. Quantitative analysis of intravasation, extravasation, and pH.

Control Bicarbonate P*



(A) Intravasation

n Mean (range) n Mean (range)

Manual (no. of cells) 3 0 (0) 7 1.3 (0–7) NS
Fluorescence (AUF) 3 124 (70–180) 7 746 (0–4,358) NS
Flow (cells/100 μL) 8 3.6 (0–13) 8 1.5 (0–10) NS
(B) Extravasation

n Mean (SE) n Mean (SE) P

Liver 3 109.0 (46.0) 3 11.9 (10.3) 0.007
Spleen 3 231.6 (3.6) 3 608.0 (56.0) 0.011
Ratio 3 0.54 (0.25) 3 0.035 (0.020) <0.001
(C) pH and growth data from window chambers

n Mean (SE) n Mean (SE) P

Intratumor pHe 4 7.00 (0.04) 3 7.07 (0.03) 0.19
Peritumor pHe 4 7.06 (0.00) 3 7.16 (0.03) 0.05
Distant pHe 4 7.11 (0.03) 3 7.15 (0.03) 0.14
ΔDiameter 4 −2.07 (13.32) 3 −5.88 (2.51) 0.39
ΔDensity 4 0.71 (0.26) 3 −3.29 (1.07) 0.002

NOTE: See Materials and Methods for experimental and analytic details.

Abbreviations: AUF, arbitrary units of fluorescence; NS, not significant.

*

P value from nonpaired Student's t test.