Figure 3

Transportabilities of six breast epithelial cell lines are compared.

(a–f) Transportability versus cell diameter is plotted in MCF-10A (a), MCF-7 (b), SK-BR-3 (c), MDA-MB-231 (d), SUM 159 (e) and SUM 149 (f) breast cancer cell lines. The blue lines in (d) indicate the linear-like distribution of transportability and cell diameter. Top blue line shows transportability of cells trapped at smaller gap, while bottom blue line shows transportability of cells trapped at larger gap. Inner and outer red circles indicate the 50% and 90% confidence interval centered at the mean depicted by a green dot, N = number of cells counted. (g) The average transportability of the six breast cancer cell lines. Data are presented as mean ± s.d. ***P < 0.001. (h) The average cell diameter of the six breast cancer cell lines. Data are presented as mean ± s.d.