Imaging of living cultured cells of an epithelial nature by atomic force microscopy

Archives of Histology and Cytology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-55

  Ushiki, Tatsuo ^a   Hitomi, Jiro ^a   Umemoto, Takeshi ^b   Yamamoto, Susumu ^a   Kanazawa, Hiroaki ^a   Shigeno, Masatsugu ^b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL CULTURE; CELL METABOLISM; CELL MOTION; CYTOSKELETON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032894631     PISSN: 09149465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1679/aohc.62.47     Document Type: Article

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