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. 2019 Mar 18;9:4758. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-41188-z

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Flow cytometric analysis of phosphatidylserine (PS) exposure. Percentage of PS-exposing cells in the outer leaflet of the plasma membrane in each cell line. Untreated cells were stained with propidium iodide (PI) and Annexin V before flow cytometric analysis. The Annexin V stain is much used to detect apoptosis; however here we investigated untreated cells under the assumption that the PS observed in the outer leaflet was not a result of apoptosis but related to the composition of the cell membrane. Thus, Annexin V+/PI− show the percentage of cells exposing PS in the outer membrane. PI+ show the percentage of dead cells. Mean + SD, n = 3–4, each performed as individual experiments.