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This review article was supported by Department of Health and Human Services (National Institutes of Health Grant 5R01- DK067110 to He-Ping Ma).
Scanning ion conductance microscopy: a nanotechnology for biological studies in live cells
Abstract:
Scanning ion-conductance microscope (SICM), which enables high-resolution imaging of cell surface topography, has been developed for over two decades. However, only recently, a unique scanning mode is increasingly used in biological studies to allow SICM to detect the surface of live cells. More recently, in combination with confocal microscopy and patch-clamp electrophysiological techniques, SICM allows investigators to localize proteins or ion channels in a specific nanostructure at the cell surface. This article will briefly review SICM nanotechnique and summarize the role of SICM in biological studies.
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© 2013 Liu, Lu, Song, Lei, Alli, Bao, Eaton and Ma.
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