Suppression of ultrafast supercontinuum generation in a salivary protein

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Santhosh, Chidangil ^a   Dharmadhikari, Aditya K ^b   Alti, Kamlesh ^b   Dharmadhikari, Jayashree A ^b   Mathur, Deepak ^a,b  

^a MANIPAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Enzymes; Proteins; Stress markers; Supercontinuum generation; Ultrafast laser pulses; White light

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SALIVARY GLAND;

ALPHA-AMYLASE; HUMANS; SALIVARY GLANDS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

BIOMARKERS; BODY FLUIDS; ENZYMES; INFRARED RADIATION; PROTEINS;

HUMAN SALIVA; SALIVARY PROTEIN; STRESS MARKERS; ULTRAFAST SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; WHITE LIGHT;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 34250686986     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2731316     Document Type: Article

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