Laser manipulation of cells and tissues [electronic resource] / edited by Michael W. Berns, Karl Otto Greulich.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A history of laser scissors (microbeams) / M.W. Berns -- Selected applications of laser scissors and tweezers and new applications in heart research / K.O. Greulich -- Laser-based measurements in cell biology / E.L. Botvinick and J.V. Shah -- Mechanisms of laser cellular microsurgery / P.A. Quinto-Su and V. Venugopalan -- Principles of laser microdissection and catapulting of histologic specimens and live cells / A. Vogel [and others] -- Physics of optical tweezers / T.A. Nieminen [and others] -- Laser microsurgery in the GFP era: a cell biologist's perspective / V. Magidson [and others] -- Investigating relaxation processes in cells and developing organisms: from cell ablation to cytoskeleton nanosurgery / J. Colombelli, E.G. Reynaud and E.H. Stelzer -- Fs-laser scissors for photobleaching, ablation in fixed samples and living cells, and studies of cell mechanics / A. Heisterkamp [and others] -- Cellular laserfection / K. Rhodes [and others] -- Chromophore-assisted laser inactivation / D. Hoffman-Kim [and others] -- Investigation of laser-microdissected inclusion bodies / N.S. Hachiya and K. Kaneko -- In situ analysis of DNA damage response and repair using laser microirradiation / J.S. Kim [and others] -- Laser effects in the manipulation of human eggs and embryos for in vitro fertilization / Y. Tadir and D.H. Douglas-Hamilton -- Laser microdissection-based analysis of plant sex chromosomes / R. Hobza and B. Vyskot -- Optical tweezers: tethers, wavelengths, and heat / M.W. Berns -- Cellular and colloidal separation using optical forces / K. Dholakia [and others] -- Laser tweezers in the study of mechanobiology in live cells / E.L. Botvinick and Y. Wang -- Optical torque on microscopic objects / S. Parkin [and others] -- Optical micromanipulation methods for controlled rotation, transportation, and microinjection of biological objects / S.K. Mohanty and P.K. Gupta -- Automated motile cell capture and analysis with optical traps / B. Shao [and others] -- Laser surgery and optical trapping in a laser scanning microscope / J. Scrimgeour, E. Eriksson and M. Goksor -- Noncontact laser microdissection and catapulting for pure sample capture / K. Schutze [and others] -- Laser capture microdissection and laser pressure catapulting as tools to study gene expression in individual cells of a complex tissue / B. Dafna, S. Rina and S. Irena -- Laser capture microdissection in comparative proteomic analysis of hepatocellular carcinoma / H.Y. Wang -- Rapid sampling for single-cell analysis by capillary electrophoresis / A.R. Nelson, N.L. Allbritton and C.E. Sims -- Sergej Stepanovich Tschachotin: experimental cytologist and political critic (1883-1973) / K.O. Greulich [and others] -- Practical aspects of working with laser microbeams and optical tweezers: data and equations / K.O. Greulich.

The use of laser-based manipulation tools has literally exploded on the cell biology and molecular pathology scene, resulting in as many different laser micromanipulation systems as there are people using them. This book ties all these systems and studies together, describing all of the different kinds of research and practical/analytical applications of laser manipulation. It also provides the reader with the basic information needed to actually build one's own laser micro-manipulation system. The combination of imaging and molecular probe technology with laser micromanipulation greatly extends the use of this technology in molecular, cellular, developmental and patho-biology/medicine. This book should be valuable to scientists, clinicians, and students in the fields of cell and developmental biology, cell physiology, cancer biology, pathology, and stem cell biology. * Devotes four chapters to laser catapulting and capture of DNA and other cellular material for biochemical analysis - a major use of this technology that has been adapted for molecular pathology both in clinical medicine and research * Discusses the theory of laser tweezers (optical tweezers) and its application to novel problems in biology * Covers topics on optoporation (getting things into cells), uncaging of molecules, and the ability to collect and analyze nanomolar amounts of cell material by an array of biochemical/physical tools of particular interest to cell biologists and drug discovery researchers.

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