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. 2012 Jan 23;12:5. doi: 10.1186/1471-213X-12-5

Table 3.

Effect of caffeine and adenosine on cell size.

AX2 Sorensen's buffer Sorensen's buffer +120 mM sorbitol Hl5c
Cell volume
Control 7.83 ± 0.10 8.87 ± 0.05 9.75 ± 0.24
5 mM adenosine 8.20 ± 0.12 (p < 0.05) 9.25 ± 0.05 (p < 0.003) 9.93 ± 0.03 (p < 0.2)
5 mM caffeine 6.59 ± 0.19 (p < 0.02) 8.39 ± 0.05 (p < 0.004) 9.30 ± 0.13 (p < 0.05)

All values represent the mean ± standard deviation of 3 independent experiments. Student's t-test was performed to check the significance of the experiments.