Table 2.

Young's moduli of substrates after 4 days of culture, as well as Young's moduli of spread and dendritic cells on each substrate at the same timepoint, as measured through AFM procedure described in §2.1.3. Asterisks (*, ** and ***) indicate statistical difference between values (p < 0.05) and±indicates 1 s.d.

	soft (kPa)	intermediate (kPa)	stiff (kPa)
substrate stiffness	0.6 ± 0.4*	1.8 ± 0.6*	10 ± 0.7*
spread cell stiffness	7 ± 8.5**	13 ± 12.1	18 ± 9.6**
dendritic cell stiffness	8 ± 8.2***	12 ± 8.2	24 ± 10.7***