Femtosecond dynamics of intracellular water probed with nonlinear optical Kerr effect microspectroscopy

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 3019-3024

  Potma, Eric O ^a   De Boeij, Wim P ^a   Wiersma, Douwe A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034998453     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(01)76267-4     Document Type: Article

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