Silicon chips detect intracellular pressure changes in living cells

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 517-521

  Gómez Martínez, Rodrigo ^a   Hernández Pinto, Alberto M ^b   Duch, Marta ^a   Vázquez, Patricia ^b   Zinoviev, Kirill ^a   De La Rosa, Enrique J ^b   Esteve, Jaume ^a   Suárez, Teresa ^b   Plaza, José A ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULICS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; SILICON;

CELL DEFORMATION; EXTERNAL PRESSURES; INDIRECT MEASUREMENT METHOD; OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY; OSMOTIC STRESS; PIPETTE ASPIRATION; PRESSURE CHANGE; REFLECTED LIGHT;

LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CELL MANIPULATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; HYPOOSMOTIC STRESS; INTERFEROMETRY; MITOCHONDRION; NANOCHIP; PIPETTE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICON CHIP; VACUUM;

EID: 84880229232     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2013.118     Document Type: Article

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