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In Vivo Two-Color 2-Photon Imaging of Genetically-Tagged Reporter Cells in the Skin
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Dynamic multiphoton imaging: a live view from cells to systems
Grace E Stutzmann1, Ian Parker
1University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California, USA.
Physiology (Bethesda, Md.)
|January 18, 2005
Abstract:
Leaps in scientific technology often occur at the interface of seemingly disparate disciplines. This holds true with the recent application of multiphoton microscopy to the biological sciences, leading to a new generation of imaging-based studies extending from the tracking of individual molecules within living cells to the observation of whole organisms.
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