Quantitative analyses of topography and elasticity of living and fixed astrocytes

Journal of Electron Microscopy

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 463-471

  Yamane, Yukako ^a   Shiga, Hatsuki ^a   Haga, Hisashi ^a   Kawabata, Kazushige ^a   Abe, Kazuhiro ^b   Ito, Etsuro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actin filament; Astrocyte; Elasticity; Force mapping method; Topography; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; ELASTICITY; LOADING; LOADS (FORCES); MAPPING; PROTEINS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN FILAMENT.; ASTROCYTE; ATOMIC-FORCE-MICROSCOPY; FORCE MAPPING; FORCE MAPPING METHOD; LOADING FORCE; MAPPING METHOD; MAPPING MODES; YOUNG MODULUS;

ELASTIC MODULI;

EID: 0033868087     PISSN: 00220744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jmicro.a023830     Document Type: Article

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