The last few milliseconds in the life of a secretory granule: Docking, dynamics and fusion visualized by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM)

European Biophysics Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 83-98

  Oheim, Martin ^a   Loerke, Dinah ^a   Stühmer, Walter ^a   Chow, Robert H ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Ca2+ triggered exocytosis; Chromaffin cell; Evanescent wave microscopy; Optical sectioning; TIRF; Vesicle fusion; Visible pool

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; GLASS; POTASSIUM; WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL MEMBRANE; EXOCYTOSIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; SECRETORY GRANULE;

ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; CATTLE; CHROMAFFIN CELLS; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OPTICS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0031938792     PISSN: 01757571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002490050114     Document Type: Article

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