Cell adhesion and proliferation on disks of different bone cements.

<p>(a) Confocal images of F-actin and nuclei stained MC3T3-E1 cells cultured for 3 h on cement surfaces. Scale bar represents 100µm (top row) and 20 µm (bottom row). (b) Normalized cell adhesion 3 h post-seeding on the PMMA and PSB bone cement compared to cell-seeded TCPS as positive (+) control. Data are shown as mean ± standard deviation (n = 3).*, <i>p</i><0.05 compared to TCPS and the PSB bone cement. (c) The number of MC3T3-E1 cells 1, 4, 7 days post-seeding on disks of the PMMA and PSB bone cement compared to cell-seeded TCPS as positive (+) control. Data are shown as mean ± standard deviation (n = 3).*, <i>P</i><0.05 between two marked samples.