. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 21.

Published in final edited form as: Adv Healthc Mater. 2015 Oct 26;5(2):255–265. doi: 10.1002/adhm.201500370

Table 1.

Cell motility velocity (μm/min) inside the composite gel with respect to external network crosslinking concentration. Corresponding shear elastic modulus (Pa) is also provided. Rough estimation of porosity is presented by numbers between 1 (low porosity) and 5 (high porosity). Asterisk indicates statistical significance between pair of data at each row.

Microgel size	Large microgels (5-15μm)		Submicron microgels
Crosslinker concentration (%)	0.25	0.5	0.25	0.5
V_c (mean±std)	0.17±0.14	0.06±0.03	0.24±0.08*	0.08±0.04*
Shear modulus (mean±std)	75±15	133±27	88±23*	143±25*
Migration mode	Lamellipodial Lobopodial	Lamellipodial	Lamellipodial Lobopodial	Lamellipodial
Expected porosity	5	1	1	5
Expected cell adhesion	High	High	High	High