Femtosecond laser-assisted optoporation for drug and gene delivery into single mammalian cells

Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 334-341

  Soman, Pranav ^a   Zhang, Wande ^a   Umeda, Aiko ^b   Zhang, Zhiwen Jonathan ^b   Chen, Shaochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Femtosecond laser; GFP; HEK; Matlab simulations; Optoporation; Single Cell manipulation; Transfection

Indexed keywords

FEMTO-SECOND LASER; GFP; HEK; MATLAB SIMULATIONS; OPTOPORATION; SINGLE-CELL MANIPULATION; TRANSFECTION;

BIOASSAY; BIOCHIPS; CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRONS; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; INFRARED DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

FLUORESCENT DYE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL DAMAGE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FEMTOSECOND LASER; FLUORESCENCE; GENE TARGETING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LAB ON A CHIP; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL STRAIN HEK293; GENE TRANSFER; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; POROSITY;

CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; LASERS; POROSITY;

EID: 80052312119     PISSN: 15507033     EISSN: 15507041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jbn.2011.1295     Document Type: Article

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