Integrated optical transfection system using a microlens fiber combined with microfluidic gene delivery

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 694-705

  Ma, N ^a   Ashok, P C ^a   Stevenson, D J ^a   Gunn Moore, F J ^a   Dholakia, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; DRUG DELIVERY; FABRICATION; FIBERS; GENE TRANSFER; INTEGRATED CONTROL; LIGHT SOURCES; MICROLENSES; TISSUE; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

CELL BOUNDARY; FABRICATION METHOD; FEMTOSECONDS; FOCAL SPOT; FREE SPACES; GENE DELIVERY; GENETIC MATERIALS; ILLUMINATION SYSTEM; IN-VIVO; INTEGRATED DESIGNS; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; LOCALIZED GENE DELIVERY; MICRO FLUIDIC SYSTEM; MICRO-CAPILLARIES; MICRO-LENS; MICRO-LENSED FIBER; NEAR-INFRARED WAVELENGTH; OPTICAL LIGHT; OPTICAL SET-UP; PLASMID DNA; TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY; TISSUE SLICE; TRANSFECTION EFFICIENCY; TRANSFECTION METHODS; TRANSFECTION SYSTEM; VISUAL IDENTIFICATION; WORKING DISTANCES;

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

EID: 79953101830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.1.000694     Document Type: Article

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