The potential of high‐content high‐throughput microscopy in drug discovery

V Starkuviene, R Pepperkok - British journal of pharmacology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Fluorescence microscopy is a powerful method to study protein function in its natural habitat,
the living cell. With the availability of the green fluorescent protein and its spectral variants …

Pharmaceutical applications of confocal laser scanning microscopy: The physical characterisation of pharmaceutical systems

SR Pygall, J Whetstone, P Timmins, CD Melia - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2007 - Elsevier
The application of confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) to the physicochemical
characterisation of pharmaceutical systems is not as widespread as its application within the …

Nucleic acid delivery: Where material sciences and bio-sciences meet

K Remaut, NN Sanders, BG De Geest, K Braeckmans… - 2007 - Elsevier
Advances in biotechnology have led to an accelerated discovery of macromolecular
therapeutics such as peptides, proteins and polynucleotides. These macromolecules can be …

Enabling tools for tissue engineering

JJ Pancrazio, F Wang, CA Kelley - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2007 - Elsevier
Tissue engineering is a multidisciplinary field that combines engineering, physical sciences,
biology, and medicine to restore or replace tissues and organs functions. In this review …

Small-molecule screening: advances in microarraying and cell-imaging technologies

RL Nicholson, M Welch, M Ladlow… - ACS chemical …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Cell-permeable small molecules can be used to modulate protein function selectively,
rapidly, reversibly, and conditionally with temporal and quantitative control in biological …

Establishment of subcellular fractionation techniques to monitor the intracellular fate of polymer therapeutics II. Identification of endosomal and lysosomal …

M Manunta, L Izzo, R Duncan, AT Jones - Journal of drug targeting, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
As they are often designed for lysosomotropic, endosomotropic and/or transcellular delivery,
an understanding of intracellular trafficking pathways is essential to enable optimised design …

Tracking of human Y receptors in living cells—a fluorescence approach

I Böhme, K Mörl, D Bamming, C Meyer… - Peptides, 2007 - Elsevier
Non-invasive methods for studying biological processes in living cells have become very
important, also in the field of GPCR biochemistry. Great advancements in the application of …

Quantum dots and other fluorescent nanoparticles: quo vadis in the cell?

D Maysinger, J Lovrić - Bio-applications of nanoparticles, 2007 - Springer
An exponentially growing number of nanotechnology-based products are providing new
platforms for research in different scientific disciplines (eg, life sciences and medicine) …

Gold-labeled block copolymer micelles reveal gold aggregates at multiple subcellular sites

P Lim Soo, SN Sidorov, J Mui, LM Bronstein, H Vali… - Langmuir, 2007 - ACS Publications
There is increasing interest in the usefulness of block copolymer micelles as drug delivery
vehicles. However, their subcellular distribution has not been explored extensively, mostly …

Advanced microfluorescence methods in monitoring intracellular uptake of “Antisense” oligonucleotides

P Praus, E Kocisova, O Seksek… - Current Organic …, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
Antisense strategy represents a promising molecular tool for efficient and selective
chemotherapeutic action. It belongs among oligonucleotide strategies that employ specific …