Optical bioimaging: From living tissue to a single molecule: Calcium imaging in blood vessel in situ employing two-photon excitation fluorescence microscopy

Journal of Pharmacological Sciences

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 242-247

  Ohata, Hisayuki ^a   Yamada, Hideyuki ^a   Niioka, Takeharu ^a   Yamamoto, Masayuki ^a   Momose, Kazutaka ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood vessel; Ca2+ imaging; In situ; Intracellular free Ca2+ concentration; Two photon excitation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CALCEIN; CALCIUM; PHENYLEPHRINE; RHODAMINE; TITANIUM;

AORTA STRIP; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; BLEACHING; BLOOD VESSEL; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL CULTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GEOMETRY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LASER; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; OSCILLATION; PHOTOTOXICITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TISSUE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; CALCIUM; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; OPTICS;

EID: 0346245131     PISSN: 13478613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1254/jphs.93.242     Document Type: Conference Paper

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