Mechanisms, imaging and structure of tear film breakup

PE King-Smith, CG Begley, RJ Braun - The ocular surface, 2018 - Elsevier
Tear film breakup (BU) is an important aspect of dry eye disease, as a cause of ocular
aberrations, irritation and ocular surface inflammation and disorder. Additionally …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the role of cholesterol in cellular biomechanics and regulation of vesicular trafficking: The power of imaging

L de Oliveira Andrade - Biomedical spectroscopy and imaging, 2016 - content.iospress.com
Cholesterol is an important component of cell plasma membrane. Due to its chemical
composition (long rigid hydrophobic chain and a small polar hydroxyl group), it fits most of its …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamics of membranes driven by actin polymerization

NS Gov, A Gopinathan - Biophysical journal, 2006 - cell.com
A motile cell, when stimulated, shows a dramatic increase in the activity of its membrane,
manifested by the appearance of dynamic membrane structures such as lamellipodia …

[HTML][HTML] Robotic intracellular electrochemical sensing for adherent cells

W Hu, Y Ma, Z Zhan, D Hussain, C Hu - Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2022 - spj.science.org
Nanopipette-based observation of intracellular biochemical processes is an important
approach to revealing the intrinsic characteristics and heterogeneity of cells for better …

Probing the Casimir force with optical tweezers

DS Ether, LB Pires, S Umrath, D Martinez… - Europhysics …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose to use optical tweezers to probe the Casimir interaction between microspheres
inside a liquid medium for geometric aspect ratios far beyond the validity of the widely …

Total three-dimensional imaging of phase objects using defocusing microscopy: Application to red blood cells

PMS Roma, L Siman, FT Amaral, U Agero… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We introduce Defocusing Microscopy (DM), a bright-field optical microscopy technique able
to perform total three-dimensional (3D) imaging of transparent objects. By total 3D imaging …

Automatic cell detection in bright-field microscope images using SIFT, random forests, and hierarchical clustering

F Mualla, S Schöll, B Sommerfeldt… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a novel machine learning-based system for unstained cell detection in bright-
field microscope images. The system is fully automatic since it requires no manual …

Macroscopic dynamics of biological cells interacting via chemotaxis and direct contact

PM Lushnikov, N Chen, M Alber - … Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2008 - APS
A connection is established between discrete stochastic model describing microscopic
motion of fluctuating cells, and macroscopic equations describing dynamics of cellular …

Defocusing microscopy

U Agero, LG Mesquita, BRA Neves… - Microscopy research …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Transparent objects (phase objects) are not visible in a standard brightfield optical
microscope. In order to see such objects the most used technique is phase‐contrast …

3D Localization of weak scatterers in digital holographic microscopy using Rayleigh-Sommerfeld back-propagation

L Wilson, R Zhang - Optics Express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
The Rayleigh-Sommerfeld back-propagation method is a fast and highly flexible volume
reconstruction scheme for digital holographic microscopy. We present a new method for 3D …