Two-photon microscopy: Shedding light on the chemistry of vision

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 34, 2007, Pages 9674-9684

  Imanishi, Yoshikazu ^a   Lodowski, Kerrie H ^a   Koutalos, Yiannis ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHOTONS;

BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH; BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; TWO-PHOTON MICROSCOPY (TPM);

VISION;

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; RETINOID DERIVATIVE;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA CELL; DYNAMICS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LIGHT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RETINA CELL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISION;

ANIMALS; EYE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; VISION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 34548288918     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi701055g     Document Type: Review

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