Table 2.
Fluo-5N fluorescent values corresponding to mitochondrial [Ca2+] before and after CAP at different extracellular [Ca2+]. Fluo-5N fluorescence values were normalized using Ionomycin +0 mM Ca2+ + EGTA (Iono EGTA) values and Ionomycin +2 mM Ca2+ (Iono 2 Ca2+) values. To determine statistical significance between NC and CAP samples at each extracellular [Ca2+], independent t-test were used.
| Extracellular [Ca2+] mM | Wild-type |
P-Value | CatSper KO |
p-value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | n | Mean | SD | n | |||||
| 0 | NC | 0.2398 | 0.1556 | 3 | 0.197 | NC | 0.0201 | 0.0167 | 3 | 0.396 |
| CAP | 0.1935 | 0.1136 | 3 | CAP | 0.0234 | 0.0248 | 3 | |||
| 0.5 | NC | 0.5122 | 0.2798 | 5 | 0.035 | NC | 0.4893 | 0.1984 | 3 | 0.676 |
| CAP | 0.6394 | 0.2413 | 6 | CAP | 0.4717 | 0.1995 | 3 | |||
| 1 | NC | 0.7242 | 0.2798 | 3 | 0.01 | NC | 0.4562 | 0.1649 | 3 | 0.63 |
| CAP | 0.8402 | 0.208 | 3 | CAP | 0.5688 | 0.257 | 3 | |||
| 2 | NC | 0.7427 | 0.4494 | 3 | 0.022 | NC | 0.579 | 0.3106 | 3 | 0.155 |
| CAP | 1.1791 | 0.4635 | 3 | CAP | 0.6194 | 0.3805 | 3 | |||