Dielectric spectroscopy of single human erythrocytes at physiological ionic strength: Dispersion of the cytoplasm

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 495-506

  Gimsa, Jan ^a   Müller, Torsten ^a   Schnelle, Thomas ^a   Fuhr, Günter ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROPHORESIS; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IONIC STRENGTH; MICROELECTRODE; POLARIZATION; SPECTROSCOPY; SPHEROID CELL;

EID: 0029977149     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79251-2     Document Type: Article

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