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. 2017 Sep 8;12(9):e0184726. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0184726

Table 1. Morphology parameters of MCF-7 cells: Cell a.

Cell parameter Symbol Unit mean ± std b p-value
viable (n = 101) apoptotic (n = 105)
Grid perimeter GPc μm 7047±2642 9140±4719 1.17E-04
Surface area Sc μm2 1663±448.4 1637±561.4 7.14E-01
Volume Vc μm3 3681±1560 3409±1730 2.39E-01
Surface-to-volume ratio SVrc μm-1 0.475±0.0658 0.521±0.121 8.48E-04
Inflection point number Nsi - 7.277±6.854 16.57±16.14 2.55E-07
Surface irregularity index SIic μm-1/2 116.6±27.94 156.7±59.01 3.53E-09
Equivalent radius ERc μm 9.420±1.217 9.102±1.478 9.41E-02
Volume sphericity index VSic - 0.6828±0.0356 0.6592±0.0670 1.83E-03
Mean mem-to-cen distance b <Rc> μm 9.447±1.252 9.257±1.560 3.36E-01
std of Rc b ΔRc μm 0.5275±0.2723 0.7933±0.3876 4.35E-08

a Parameters in blue fonts present statistically significant differences between the two groups with n as cell number.

b mem-to-cen = membrane-voxels-to-centroid, std = standard deviation.