Cell viability with various centrifugation rates (400, 1500, 3000, 5000×<i>g</i> during 10 min at 4°C) comparing to the reference milk cell suspension without supplementary centrifugation (Ref).

<p>(A) Boxplot and whiskers of flow cytometry results with milk somatic cell suspensions incubated with specific antibodies and vioblue live/dead kit (n = 4); (B) Cell viability of each type cell for 400×<i>g</i> (white bars), 1500×<i>g</i> (hatched bars), 3000×<i>g</i> (grey bars), 5000×<i>g</i> (dark bars) centrifugations by flow cytometry; (C) Mean proportion of macrophages (dark sectors), PMNs (grey sectors) and lymphocytes (white sectors) in cell samples under various centrifugation with different gravitational velocities. Means with different superscripts (a-d) differ significantly (<i>P</i><0.05).