Two-photon fluorescence microscopy of laurdan generalized polarization domains in model and natural membranes

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2413-2429

  Parasassi, Tiziana ^a   Gratton, Enrico ^b   Yu, Weiming M ^b   Wilson, Paul ^c   Levi, Moshe ^c,d  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); CHOLESTEROL; LAURDAN; LIPID; WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TUBULE EPITHELIUM; MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; POLARIZATION; RAT;

EID: 0030950269     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(97)78887-8     Document Type: Article

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