Establishment of monoclonal HCC cell lines with organ site-specific tropisms

BMC Cancer

Table 2 Metastatic tropisms of monoclonal cell lines gauged by fluorescence area (pixel)

	Lung metastasis area	Lymph node metastasis area	Z value	P value
LM1-S3	176820 ± 13120	0	−2.521	0.012
LM1-S4	1296000 ± 524228	0	−2.521	0.012
LM1-S5	34676 ± 7388	0	−2.521	0.012
LM1-S11	499011 ± 133568	0	−2.521	0.012
LnM1-S11	486529 ± 180184	884586 ± 442968	−1.820	0.069
LnM1-S13	41132 ± 23599	21873 ± 4712	−1.820	0.069
χ ²	40.71	46.39
P value (Kruskal-Wallis)	<0.0001	<0.0001

Pixel represented the fluorescence area. Wilcoxon rank test was used to test the same cell line metastasis variables. Kruskal-Wallis was used to analyze qualitative variables among these six cell lines

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