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Measuring the Mechanical Properties of Living Cells Using Atomic Force Microscopy
Published on: June 27, 2013
Evaluation of morphometric parameters of native blood cells by atomic force microscopy
M Yu Skorkina1, S D Chernyavskiy, M Z Fedorova
1Belgorod State University, Russia. skorkina@bsu.edu.ru
Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine
|January 18, 2011
Abstract:
We propose and tested a method for studies of native blood cells by atomic-force microscopy in a humid chamber preserving viability, size, and shape of biological objects. The method has some advantages over scanning in a liquid cell: it allows studying non-fixed blood samples in the form of suspension of live cells and excludes mechanical and chemical influences on the cells.

