Patterned femtosecond-laser ablation of Xenopus laevis melanocytes for studies of cell migration, wound repair, and developmental processes

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2383-2391

  Mondia, Jessica P ^a,b   Adams, Dany S ^b   Orendorff, Ryan D ^a   Levin, Michael ^b   Omenetto, Fiorenzo G ^a,b  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TISSUE;

ABLATION THRESHOLDS; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOLOGICAL STUDIES; CANCER RESEARCH; CELL MIGRATION; CULTURED CELL; FEMTOSECONDS; IN-VIVO; LASER MARKING; MICRO-SCALES; SCRATCH TEST; SPINAL CORDS; SURGICAL APPLICATIONS; TISSUE REMOVAL; TO EFFECT; ULTRA-FAST; WOUND HEALING; WOUND REPAIR; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS LAEVIS TADPOLES;

LASER ABLATION;

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 80052841627     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.2.002383     Document Type: Article

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