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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Apr 28.
Published in final edited form as: ACS Nano. 2015 Jun 2;9(6):5846–5856. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.5b00430

Figure 3. Evaluation of elasticity heterogeneity within cells plated on ▽- (n=16), T- (n=14), Y- (n=18) shaped fibronectin micropatterns.

Figure 3

A. Averaged elasticity histograms calculated by averaging the bin values of each single-cell elasticity histogram. Error bars correspond to the standard error of the mean. The distributions show that cells plated on a ▽ present the lowest variability, while the ones plated on a Y the highest. B. Coefficient of variation maps of log (E) maps shown in Fig. 2 of RPE1 cells plated on ▽ (n=16), T (n=14), Y (n=18)-shaped fibronectin micropatterns. Coefficient of variation (CV) maps were calculated by dividing the standard deviation of each pixel by its corresponding average value. The medians of CV maps were 0.10, 0.13, and 0.15 for ▽-, T - and Y-cells respectively.