Third harmonic generation microscopy of cells and tissue organization

B Weigelin, GJ Bakker, P Friedl - Journal of Cell Science, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
The interaction of cells within their microenvironmental niche is fundamental to cell
migration, positioning, growth and differentiation in order to form and maintain complex …

Quantitative optical imaging of primary tumor organoid metabolism predicts drug response in breast cancer

AJ Walsh, RS Cook, ME Sanders, L Aurisicchio… - Cancer research, 2014 - AACR
There is a need for technologies to predict the efficacy of cancer treatment in individual
patients. Here, we show that optical metabolic imaging of organoids derived from primary …

Intracellular coenzymes as natural biomarkers for metabolic activities and mitochondrial anomalies

AA Heikal - Biomarkers in medicine, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Mitochondria play a pivotal role in energy metabolism, programmed cell death and oxidative
stress. Mutated mitochondrial DNA in diseased cells compromises the structure of key …

NAD+ consumption by PARP1 in response to DNA damage triggers metabolic shift critical for damaged cell survival

MM Murata, X Kong, E Moncada, Y Chen… - Molecular biology of …, 2019 - Am Soc Cell Biol
DNA damage signaling is critical for the maintenance of genome integrity and cell fate
decision. Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP1) is a DNA damage sensor rapidly …

[HTML][HTML] Two-photon autofluorescence dynamics imaging reveals sensitivity of intracellular NADH concentration and conformation to cell physiology at the single-cell …

Q Yu, AA Heikal - Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, 2009 - Elsevier
Reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, NADH, is a major electron donor in the
oxidative phosphorylation and glycolytic pathways in cells. As a result, there has been …

Imaging hallmarks of cancer in living mice

SIJ Ellenbroek, J Van Rheenen - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2014 - nature.com
To comprehend the complexity of cancer, the biological characteristics acquired during the
initiation and progression of tumours were classified as the'hallmarks of cancer'. Intravital …

Protein-bound NAD (P) H lifetime is sensitive to multiple fates of glucose carbon

JT Sharick, PF Favreau, AA Gillette, SM Sdao… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract While NAD (P) H fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) can detect changes in flux
through the TCA cycle and electron transport chain (ETC), it remains unclear whether NAD …

Multiphoton microscopy and fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) to monitor metastasis and the tumor microenvironment

PP Provenzano, KW Eliceiri, PJ Keely - Clinical & experimental metastasis, 2009 - Springer
Cancer metastasis involves complex cell behavior and interaction with the extracellular
matrix by metabolically active cells. To observe invasion and metastasis with sub-cellular …

Optical imaging of drug-induced metabolism changes in murine and human pancreatic cancer organoids reveals heterogeneous drug response

AJ Walsh, JA Castellanos, NS Nagathihalli… - Pancreas, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objectives Three-dimensional organoids derived from primary pancreatic ductal
adenocarcinomas are an attractive platform for testing potential anticancer drugs on patient …

Multi‐wavelength fluorescence lifetime spectroscopy: a new approach to the study of endogenous fluorescence in living cells and tissues

D Chorvat Jr, A Chorvatova - Laser Physics Letters, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The study of biological systems in their real environmental conditions is crucial to decipher
the true image of structures and processes underlying their functionality. In this regard …