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Table 1 Summary of wound repair timescales in single cells

From: Microfluidic guillotine reveals multiple timescales and mechanical modes of wound response in Stentor coeruleus

Cell type

Wound diameter (μm)

Cell diameter (μm)

Ratio of wound diameter to cell diameter

Healing time (s)

Approx. healing rate (μm2/s)

LHCN skeletal muscle (human) [9]

1

~ 40

0.03

70

0.01

HeLa [10]

2–3

30

0.07

200–300

0.01–0.03

3 T3 fibroblast [11]

2

18

0.11

60–120

0.02–0.05

Dictyostelium [12]

0.5–2

15

0.03

5–10

0.02–0.6

Drosophila embryo [13]

12–20

150–500

0.08

100–200

0.6–3.1

Xenopus oocyte [14]

~ 200

1200

0.17

600

52

Sea urchin egg [15,16,17]

10–50

80

0.125–0.625

3–15

31–130

Stentor coeruleus

~ 100

(approximate size of a single large wound)

~ 200

(for a cell fragment approx. half the original cell size)

0.5

100–1000

7.9–79