Method Comparison for Analyzing Wound Healing Rates

Wound healing scratch assay is a frequently used method to characterize cell migration, which is an important biological process in the course of development, tissue repair, and immune response for example. The measurement of wound healing rate, however, varies among different studies. Here we summarized these measurements into three types: I) Direct Rate Average; II) Regression Rate Average; and III) Average Distance Regression Rate. Using Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells as a model, we compared the three types of analyses on quantifying the wound closing rate, and discovered that type I III measurements are more resistant to outliers and type II analysis is more sensitive to outliers. We hope this study can help researchers to better use this simple yet effective assay.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author