Positron emission tomography detection of human endothelial cell and fibroblast monolayers: effect of pretreament and cell density on 18FDG uptake

Table 1 Thresholds of the experimental design for all cell types in order of influence

Variables	Lower threshold	Upper threshold	¹⁸FDG uptake gain	P-value
Starvation time	0 h	3 h	43.9%	< 0.0001*
Cell density	10 000 cells/mL	50 000 cells/mL	20.3%	0.0002*
¹⁸FDG incubation time	1 h	2 h	5.8%	0.0062*
Insulin concentration	0.0 nmol/mL	6.0 nmol/mL	1.4%	0.1016
Insulin incubation time	0 h	1 h	1.0%	0.1475

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