Nanoscale live-cell imaging using hopping probe ion conductance microscopy
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Pavel Novak1, Chao Li, Andrew I Shevchuk
1Imperial College London, UK.
Nature Methods
|March 3, 2009
Abstract:
We describe hopping mode scanning ion conductance microscopy that allows noncontact imaging of the complex three-dimensional surfaces of live cells with resolution better than 20 nm. We tested the effectiveness of this technique by imaging networks of cultured rat hippocampal neurons and mechanosensory stereocilia of mouse cochlear hair cells. The technique allowed examination of nanoscale phenomena on the surface of live cells under physiological conditions.

