Raman spectroscopy: techniques and applications in the life sciences

DW Shipp, F Sinjab, I Notingher - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Raman spectroscopy is an increasingly popular technique in many areas, including biology
and medicine. It is based on Raman scattering, a phenomenon in which incident photons …

Single cell optical imaging and spectroscopy

AS Stender, K Marchuk, C Liu, S Sander… - Chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
In his 1665 treatise, Micrographia, Robert Hooke described the many observations he had
made using a microscope, including compartment-like structures in cork samples that he …

Diverse repertoire of human adipocyte subtypes develops from transcriptionally distinct mesenchymal progenitor cells

SY Min, A Desai, Z Yang, A Sharma… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Single-cell sequencing technologies have revealed an unexpectedly broad repertoire of
cells required to mediate complex functions in multicellular organisms. Despite the multiple …

A Comparative Study of Fat Storage Quantitation in Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans Using Label and Label-Free Methods

K Yen, TT Le, A Bansal, SD Narasimhan, JX Cheng… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has been employed as a model organism to study
human obesity due to the conservation of the pathways that regulate energy metabolism. To …

Chemical contrast for imaging living systems: molecular vibrations drive CARS microscopy

JP Pezacki, JA Blake, DC Danielson… - Nature chemical …, 2011 - nature.com
Cellular biomolecules contain unique molecular vibrations that can be visualized by
coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy without the need for labels. Here …

Minireview: PPARγ as the target of obesogens

A Janesick, B Blumberg - The Journal of steroid biochemistry and …, 2011 - Elsevier
The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) is a key regulator of
adipogenesis and is medically important for its connections to obesity and the treatment of …

Multimodal nonlinear optical microscopy

S Yue, MN Slipchenko, JX Cheng - Laser & photonics reviews, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Because each nonlinear optical (NLO) imaging modality is sensitive to specific molecules or
structures, multimodal NLO imaging capitalizes the potential of NLO microscopy for studies …

[HTML][HTML] Plasma membranes as heat stress sensors: from lipid-controlled molecular switches to therapeutic applications

Z Török, T Crul, B Maresca, GJ Schütz, F Viana… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2014 - Elsevier
The classic heat shock (stress) response (HSR) was originally attributed to protein
denaturation. However, heat shock protein (Hsp) induction occurs in many circumstances …

Shedding new light on lipid biology with coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy

TT Le, S Yue, JX Cheng - Journal of lipid research, 2010 - ASBMB
Despite the ubiquitous roles of lipids in biology, the detection of lipids has relied on invasive
techniques, population measurements, or nonspecific labeling. Such difficulties can be …

Curcumin inhibits adipocyte differentiation through modulation of mitotic clonal expansion

CY Kim, TT Le, C Chen, JX Cheng, KH Kim - The Journal of nutritional …, 2011 - Elsevier
Adipocyte differentiation is a key process in determining the number of mature adipocytes in
the development of obesity. Here, we examined the function of curcumin, a dietary …