What methods of quantification exist and do you recommend for a wound-healing assay?

10 October 2013 1 1K Report

I tried measuring scratch areas, but in my opinion this results too subjetive.

Wound healing will only tell you the migratory potential of a cell by measuring the wound closure distance as a function of time. If you are interested to monitor invasive property then you must try matrigel based invasion assay or there are ready made inserts in different well formats specifically for invasion assay.

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