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Laser tweezers in cell biology /

Volume 55 in Methods in Cell Biology is a concise laboratory book that emphasizes the methods and technologies needed to use single polarized laser light source that functions simultaneously as an optical trap and a dual-beam interferometer. * * Provides a practical laboratory guide for methods and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Sheetz, Michael P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: San Diego : Academic Press, �1998.
Series:Methods in cell biology ; v. 55.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Forces of a single-beam gradient laser trap on a dielectric sphere in the ray optics regime
  • 2. Basic laser tweezers
  • 3. A simple assay for local heating by optical tweezers
  • 4. Reflections of a lucid dreamer: optical trap design considerations
  • 5. Laser scissors and tweezers
  • 6. optical force microscopy
  • 7. Single molecule imaging and nanomanipulation of biomolecules
  • 8. Signals and noise in micromechanical measurements
  • 9. Cell membrane mechanics
  • 10. Application of laser tweezers to studies of the fences and tethers of the membrane skeleton that regulate the movements of plasma membrane proteins
  • 11. in vivo manipulation of internal cell organelles
  • 12. Optical chopsticks: digital synthesis of multiple optical traps.