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. 2017 Aug 1;15(6):267–279. doi: 10.1089/adt.2017.786

Table 6.

Assay Quality Control—Cytotoxicity Assay

    Interplate reproducibilitya Interday reproducibilitya %CV of negative controls Z′-factorb (N = 12–36)
Metric Cells (+)c (−)d (+) (−) (+) (−) (+) (−)
Nuclei content HUVEC S: 0.81 (<0.0001) S: 0.72 (<0.0001) S: 0.79 (<0.0001) S: 0.71 (<0.0001) 6.4 6.6 0.73 0.55
P: 0.84 (<0.0001) P: 0.89 (<0.0001) P: 0.88 (<0.0001) P: 0.90 (<0.0001)
iPSC-Endoe S: 0.81 (<0.0001) S: 0.78 (<0.0001) S: 0.71 (<0.0001) S: 0.58 (<0.0001) 14.4 7.4 −1.2 −0.19
P: 0.83 (<0.0001) P: 0.89 (<0.0001) P: 0.77 (<0.0001) P: 0.80 (<0.0001)
Viable cell staining HUVEC S: 0.81 (<0.0001) S: 0.72 (<0.0001) S: 0.81 (<0.0001) S: 0.71 (<0.0001) 6.4 6.6 0.78 0.80
P: 0.90 (<0.0001) P: 0.90 (<0.0001) P: 0.90 (<0.0001) P: 0.91 (<0.0001)
iPSC-Endoe S: 0.87 (<0.0001) S: 0.77 (<0.0001) S: 0.82 (<0.0001) S: 0.51 (<0.0001) 15.4 7.4 0.53 0.64
P: 0.97 (<0.0001) P: 0.95 (<0.0001) P: 0.89 (<0.0001) P: 0.78 (<0.0001)
ATP content HUVEC S: 0.87 (<0.0001) S: 0.78 (<0.0001) S: 0.80 (<0.0001) S: 0.62 (<0.0001) 6.5 6.8 0.79 0.72
P: 0.91 (<0.0001) P: 0.89 (<0.0001) P: 0.86 (<0.0001) P: 0.91 (<0.0001)
iPSC-Endoe S: 0.87 (<0.0001) S: 0.80 (<0.0001) S: 0.80 (<0.0001) S: 0.66 (<0.0001) 8.3 7.0 0.74 0.77
P: 0.91 (<0.0001) P: 0.97 (<0.0001) P: 0.86 (<0.0001) P: 0.93 (<0.0001)

aS: Spearman's ρ, P: Pearson's r. Correlation analysis sample size ranged from n = 96. P values provided below correlation values.

bTreatment with TAB at 50 μM.

c(+): Cells stimulated with cytokines.

d(−): Unstimulated cells.

eiPSC-Endo: iCell endothelial cells from Cellular Dynamics International.

 Plots of the data used to calculate Z′-factors shown in this table are included as Supplementary Figure S3.

ATP, adenosine triphosphate.