ナノスケールでのコラーゲン線維生成の探索:先端強化ラマン成像プロトフィブリル

Maria A Paularie1, Emerson A Fonseca1,2, Vitor Monken2,3

  • 1Departamento de Física, Instituto de Ciências Exatas (ICEx), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brasil.

Journal of microscopy
|August 29, 2025
PubMed
まとめ

この研究では,超スペクトル端強化ラーマン光譜法 (TERS) を使用して,コラーゲン原繊維をイメージし,初期の繊維形成のナノスケール化学および構造的な詳細を明らかにします. これらの発見は コラーゲンの組み立ての初期段階について 新たな洞察を与えてくれます

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