Table 4.
Cellular tests carried out in the included studies.
| Test type | Components | References | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Viability tests | Calcein AM Green (live) | Ethidium homodimer (37) Orange-Red (dead) | Bertassoni et al., 2014; Das et al., 2015; Gao et al., 2015; Kundu et al., 2015; Akkineni et al., 2016; Daly et al., 2016a; Ersumo et al., 2016; Hartwell et al., 2016; Izadifar et al., 2016; Kim et al., 2016, 2019; Narayanan et al., 2016; Zhang K. et al., 2016; Ahn et al., 2017; Freeman and Kelly, 2017; Kang et al., 2017; Levato et al., 2017; Schütz et al., 2017; Stichler et al., 2017; Ahlfeld et al., 2018; Aied et al., 2018; Bandyopadhyay et al., 2018; Berg et al., 2018; Hafeez et al., 2018; Maiullari et al., 2018; Ooi et al., 2018; Shin et al., 2018; Wang et al., 2018; Wu Y. et al., 2018; Xu C. et al., 2018; Yan et al., 2018; Gonzalez-Fernandez et al., 2019; Ji et al., 2019; Kiyotake et al., 2019; Krishnamoorthy et al., 2019; Noh et al., 2019; Yoon et al., 2019 |
| Propidium iodide (23) Red (dead) | Chung et al., 2013; Billiet et al., 2014; Du et al., 2015; He et al., 2016, 2018; Ren et al., 2016; Wang et al., 2016; Bakirci et al., 2017; Li et al., 2017, 2018a,b; Ding et al., 2017, 2018; Gao et al., 2017; Suntornnond et al., 2017; Yang et al., 2017; Chen et al., 2018, 2019; Contessi Negrini et al., 2018; Gu et al., 2018; Pepelanova et al., 2018; Raddatz et al., 2018; Li et al., 2019 | ||
| Live/Dead assay kit* (19) Green/red (live/dead) | Censi et al., 2011; Schuurman et al., 2013; Jia et al., 2014; Markstedt et al., 2015; Costantini et al., 2016; Daly et al., 2016b; Fan et al., 2016; Nguyen et al., 2017; Aljohani et al., 2018; Habib et al., 2018; Lee et al., 2018; Li et al., 2018c; Liu et al., 2018; López-Marcial et al., 2018; Wu D. et al., 2018; Zhang X. et al., 2018; Kosik-Kozioł et al., 2019; Xin et al., 2019; Zhou et al., 2019 | ||
| Propidium Iodide** (10) Red (dead) | Blaeser et al., 2013; Duarte Campos et al., 2013; Campbell et al., 2015; Campos et al., 2015; Köpf et al., 2016; Lin et al., 2016; Giuseppe et al., 2017; Kosik-Kozioł et al., 2017; Law et al., 2018; Jeon et al., 2019 | ||
| Alamar blue (8) Blue (live) | Khalil and Sun, 2009; Irvine et al., 2015; Cochis et al., 2018; García-Lizarribar et al., 2018; Tijore et al., 2018a,b; Zheng et al., 2018; Haring et al., 2019 | ||
| Trypan blue (1) Blue (dead) | Béduer et al., 2018 | ||
| Hoechst 33342 (1) Blue (live) | AnilKumar et al., 2019 | ||
| Metabolic tests | CCK8 (3) Orange (cell activity) | Hsiao and Hsu, 2018; Xu X. et al., 2018; Yu et al., 2018 | |
| MTT (3) Purple (cell activity) | Datta et al., 2018; Zhang J. et al., 2018; Aydogdu et al., 2019 | ||
| PET activity (1) | Polley et al., 2017 | ||
(*) Unknown agents, commercial kits, (**) Different agents: Acridine orange, Fluorescein diacetate or unknown agent.