Figure 5. Effects of barium on anchorage-independent growth of nontumorigenic and transformed cells.
Number of colonies in fibroblasts (NIH3T3; A), immortalized nontumorigenic melanocytes (melan-a; B), cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma cells [HSC5 (C) and A431 (D)] and malignant melanoma cells (Mel-ret; E) treated with 0–100 µM (lanes 1–7) of barium in the colony formation assay are presented. **, Significantly different (p<0.01) from the control by the Kruskal-Wallis test.