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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 30.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2012 Feb 18;45(7):1280–1287. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2012.01.032

Figure 3. Nuclear contribution to deformation (NCD) in aspirated stem cells is a quantitative measure of how the cell deforms as a unified structure.

Figure 3

(A) Black points in plots of NCD versus time represent CD34+ cells and white dots represent MSCs. Error bars are SEM. (B) Average values of NCD for each cell type show that the nucleus of CD34+ cells contributes more to cell deformation, less in MSCs, but not at all in PSCs, where NCD is always above 1 due to absence of nuclear mobility during aspiration. (p-value < 10−5 between cell types).