Probing the interior of living cells with fluorescence correlation spectroscopy

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1130, Issue , 2008, Pages 21-27

  Weiss, Matthias ^a,b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anomalous diffusion; Diffuse to capture; Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy; Macromolecular crowding; Subdiffusion; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOPLASM; CYTOPLASM VESICLE; DIFFUSION; ELECTROPORATION; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; MACROMOLECULE; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 47249110236     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1430.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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