Low caspase activity in heavy metal lethal concentration 50 (LC50). What does that mean?

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Diego Baderna

dear Bruna,

have you normalized for the number of cells survived to the treatment? if you kill cells no activity will be measured while survived cells are trying to repear DNA damages with enhanced activity

Bruna Puty

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your answer.

And yes I have normalized the cell number before the treatment. But after that, I have an increase in cell death in ther higher concentration