Generation and analysis of biosensors to measure mechanical forces within cells

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1066, Issue , 2013, Pages 169-184

  Austen, Katharina ^a   Kluger, Carleen ^a   Freikamp, Andrea ^a   Chrostek Grashoff, Anna ^a   Grashoff, Carsten ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biosensor; Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM); Force measurement; F rster resonance energy transfer (FRET); Mechanobiology; Mechanotransduction; Tension sensor

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FORCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STABLE EXPRESSION; TRANSIENT EXPRESSION;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84934444360     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-604-7_15     Document Type: Article

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