The full dataset used in this study and in the studies subse- quently reported are presented in Table S1. If we compare our AFM cell stiffness data with that in the literature (a convenient review is presented by Kuznetsova et al. (53)), it is clear
that our data (control cell population Young’s modulus of E ¼ 1520 5 646 Pa (mean 5 SD)) are similar in both magnitude and reported experimental scatter to those reported in other AFM studies of the stiffness of fibroblast cells.