Following intracellular cholesterol transport by linear and non-linear optical microscopy of intrinsically fluorescent sterols

Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 303-318

  Wüstner, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Bile; Cholesterol ergosterol; Fluorescent sterols; Hepatocytes; Image correlation spectroscopy; Macrophages; Multiphoton microscopy; Particle tracking; Wide field microscopy

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL OXIDASE; CYTOLYSIN; DEHYDROERGOSTEROL; ERGOSTEROL; FLUORESCENT DYE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL LEVEL; CELL MEMBRANE; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; LIPID ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM YIELD; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHOLESTEROL; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; STEROLS;

EID: 84856479808     PISSN: 13892010     EISSN: 18734316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920112799095301     Document Type: Article

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