Cell surface fluctuations studied with defocusing microscopy

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 5 1, 2003, Pages

  Agero, U ^a   Monken, C H ^a   Ropert, C ^b   Gazzinelli, R T ^a,b   Mesquita, O N ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; FOCUSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

CELL SURFACE FLUCTUATIONS; CYTOSKELETON MEMBRANE; DEFOCUSING MICROSCOPY; MACROPHAGES; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; ZYMOSAN;

CELLS;

EID: 36349009952     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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