Meaningful interpretation of subdiffusive measurements in living cells (crowded environment) by fluorescence fluctuation microscopy

Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 527-543

  Baumann, Gerd ^a   Place, Robert F ^b,c   Földes Papp, Zeno ^a,d  

^a The German University in Cairo   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Anomalous motion; Broken ergodicity; Cellular crowding; Continuous Time Random Walks (CTRW); Continuous Time Random Walks (CTRW) on fractal supports; Cytoplasmic Assembly of Nuclear RISC; Ergodicity; FCCS; FCS; Fluorescence Fluctuation Microscopy; Fluorescence imaging; GFP Ago1; GFP Ago2; Heterogeneity; Living cells; Meaningful interpretation of subdiffusive measurements; MicroRNA trafficking; Physical model of crowding; Physical model of heterogeneity; Random walks on fractal supports; Resolution limits of measured diffusion times for two components; RNA Activation (RNAa); Single Molecule; Small Activating RNA (saRNA); Temporal autocorrelation; Temporal two color crosscorrelation; Time dependence of apparent diffusion coefficients

Indexed keywords

RNA; SMALL ACTIVATING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; FLUORESCENCE FLUCTUATION MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULE; MOTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 77956386903     PISSN: 13892010     EISSN: 18734316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920110791591454     Document Type: Article

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