Table 2 of Kerrison, Mol Vis 2005; 11:208-215.


Table 2. Features of neurite outgrowth

The table summarizes the average normalized neurite length, neurite count, and branch point count from five experiments. For each factor, the parameter was normalized to the media alone. The p values correspond to the statistical comparisons of neurite length ratio, neurite count ratio, and branch point count made to the respective parameter for media only. While BDNF had a larger impact on neurite length and branch point count than neurite count, the BMPs tend to promote increased neurite count and branch point count to an extent comparable to their effect on neurite length (Figure 5). There were 59 wells used for each sample.


            Neurite                       Neurite                       Branch
            length                         count                        count
Treatment    ratio     SD      p value     ratio     SD      p value    ratio     SD      p value
---------   -------   -----   ---------   -------   -----   ---------   ------   -----   ---------
  Media      1.000    0.439                1.000    0.249               1.000    0.571
  BDNF       1.874    0.627   <0.000001    1.429    0.346   <0.000001   1.896    0.808   <0.000001
  BMP2       1.385    0.459   <0.000001    1.272    0.241   <0.000001   1.378    0.590    0.00058
  BMP13      1.283    0.483    0.00114     1.177    0.288    0.00052    1.308    0.597    0.00493
  GDF8       1.221    0.439    0.00722     1.111    0.261    0.01923    1.259    0.571    0.01524
  TGFA       1.320    0.473    0.00022     1.242    0.282   <0.000001   1.160    0.554    0.12442
  TGFB1      1.094    0.389    0.21966     1.056    0.273    0.24452    1.148    0.593    0.16992
  TGFB2      1.041    0.460    0.62144     1.046    0.266    0.33242    1.035    0.648    0.75302

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