TRANSFECTION AND CELL FUSION BY FEMTOSECOND LASERS
作者机构:Department of Electronic Engineering The Chinese University of Hong KongShatinN.T.Hong Kong Department of Biochemistry The Chinese University of Hong KongShatinN.T.Hong Kong
出 版 物:《Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences》 (创新光学健康科学杂志(英文))
年 卷 期:2011年第4卷第2期
页 面:113-125页
核心收录:
学科分类:080901[工学-物理电子学] 0809[工学-电子科学与技术(可授工学、理学学位)] 08[工学] 080401[工学-精密仪器及机械] 0804[工学-仪器科学与技术] 0803[工学-光学工程]
主 题:Biophotonics transfection cell fusion femtosecond laser
摘 要:Biophotonics is an exciting and fast-expanding frontier which involves the fusion of advanced photonics and *** has not only created many novel methodologies for biomedical research,but also achieved many significant results as an *** to femtosecond(fs)laser technologies,important progresses have been made regarding the manipulation,imaging,and engineering of biological samples ranging from single molecules to tissues in the last 20 *** ultrashort pulses at near-infrared band provide many advantages:high nonlinear efficiency,low absorption by biological samples,high spatial and temporal resolution and confinement,and low *** are noninvasive and easy to *** the mechanism of how fs laser pulses interact with cells remains unclear,experimental results have shown that they could open up the cell membrane and hence made optical transfection and optical cell fusion *** this review,some of the seminal works on transfection and cell fusion by fs lasers are *** ideas behind and the experimental details will be described together with a highlight on their ***,the thermal effect is analyzed based on multiphoton excitation and plasma formation in an aqueous environment to explain the nontoxic characteristic of fs laser ***,some applications of fs laser induced transfection and cellcell fusion with potential major impact in biomedical sciences are proposed.