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. 2015 Oct 12;15:678. doi: 10.1186/s12885-015-1692-0

Table 2.

Metastatic tropisms of monoclonal cell lines gauged by fluorescence area (pixel)

Lung metastasis area Lymph node metastasis area Z value P value
LM1-S3 176820 ± 13120 0 −2.521 0.012
LM1-S4 1296000 ± 524228 0 −2.521 0.012
LM1-S5 34676 ± 7388 0 −2.521 0.012
LM1-S11 499011 ± 133568 0 −2.521 0.012
LnM1-S11 486529 ± 180184 884586 ± 442968 −1.820 0.069
LnM1-S13 41132 ± 23599 21873 ± 4712 −1.820 0.069
χ 2 40.71 46.39
P value (Kruskal-Wallis) <0.0001 <0.0001

Pixel represented the fluorescence area. Wilcoxon rank test was used to test the same cell line metastasis variables. Kruskal-Wallis was used to analyze qualitative variables among these six cell lines