In vivo imaging of myelin in the vertebrate central nervous system using third harmonic generation microscopy.

abstract：:Using both quasi-elastic light scattering spectroscopy and angular dissymmetry in the intensity of the scattered light, we examined the onset of turbidity for intact calf lenses and for isolated nuclear cytoplasm. In the case of the nuclear cytoplasm these measurements demonstrate the presence of two kinds of scattere...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Delaye M,Clark JI,Benedek GB

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long time series of monosynaptic Ia-afferent to alpha-motoneuron reflexes were recorded in the L7 or S1 ventral roots in the cat. Time series were collected before and after spinalization at T13 during constant amplitude stimulations of group Ia muscle afferents in the triceps surae muscle nerves. Using autocorrelatio...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chang T,Schiff SJ,Sauer T,Gossard JP,Burke RE

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study maximum shortening velocity (Vmax) and isometric tension (P0) in skinned single fibers from rat slow soleus (SOL) and fast superficial vastus lateralis (SVL) muscles were examined after varying degrees of filament lattice compression with dextran. In both fiber types Vmax was greatest in the absence of d...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Metzger JM,Moss RL

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrical membrane potential (Vm) is one of the components of the electrochemical potential of protons across the biological membrane (proton motive force), which powers many vital cellular processes. Because Vm also plays a role in signal transduction, measuring it is of great interest. Over the years, a variety...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mancini L,Terradot G,Tian T,Pu Y,Li Y,Lo CJ,Bai F,Pilizota T

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used optical tweezers to study the elasticity of red cell membranes; force was applied to a bead attached to a permeabilized spherical ghost and the force-extension relation was obtained from the response of a second bead bound at a diametrically opposite position. Interruption of the skeletal network by disso...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sleep J,Wilson D,Simmons R,Gratzer W

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-photon excitation (TPE) spectra of Fura-2, -4F, -6F, -FF, and Furaptra were characterized using a tunable (750-850 nM) ultra-short pulse laser. Two-photon fluorescence of these dyes was studied in free solution and in the cytosol of isolated rabbit ventricular cardiomyocytes. The TPE spectra of the Ca(2+)-free and...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wokosin DL,Loughrey CM,Smith GL

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral tension in cell plasma membranes plays an essential role in regulation of a number of membrane-related intracellular processes and cell motion. Understanding the physical factors generating the lateral tension and quantitative determination of the tension distribution along the cell membrane is an emerging top...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schweitzer Y,Lieber AD,Keren K,Kozlov MM

更新日期：2014-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrophobic interactions between a bilayer and its embedded membrane proteins couple protein conformational changes to changes in the packing of the surrounding lipids. The energetic cost of a protein conformational change therefore includes a contribution from the associated bilayer deformation energy (DeltaGdef0), w...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lundbaek JA,Andersen OS

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-modulated (HCN) cation channels are opened by membrane hyperpolarization, while their activation is modulated by the binding of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) in the cytoplasm. Here we investigate the molecular basis of cAMP channel modulation by performing mole...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Berrera M,Pantano S,Carloni P

更新日期：2006-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Phase-lifetime spectroscopy was used to measure the kinetics of light-driven proton transients and M intermediate decay of purple membrane. The kinetics were measured in distilled water and in 0.4 M KCl over the pH range of 5.3-8.8. The low ionic strength data showed results that were comparable to previous data. The ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sinton MH,Dewey TG

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fundamental backbone dynamics of unfolded proteins arising due to intrinsic ϕ-ψ dihedral angle fluctuations dictate the course of protein folding, binding, assembly, and function. These internal fluctuations are also critical for protein misfolding associated with a range of human diseases. However, direct observa...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jain N,Narang D,Bhasne K,Dalal V,Arya S,Bhattacharya M,Mukhopadhyay S

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:To assay cell cycle progression in synchronized culture of yeast we have applied dielectric spectroscopy to its real-time monitoring. The dielectric monitoring is based on the electromagnetic induction method, regarded as a nonelectrode method, which has resolved the problems encountered in measurements with metal ele...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Asami K,Gheorghiu E,Yonezawa T

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the use of electrospray ionization-Fourier transform ion cyclotron mass spectrometry (ESI-FTICR-MS) to study the relative stabilities of noncovalent complexes of carbonic anhydrase II (CAII, EC 4.2.1.1) and benzenesulfonamide inhibitors in the gas phase. Sustained off-resonance irradiation collisi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gao J,Wu Q,Carbeck J,Lei QP,Smith RD,Whitesides GM

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catch bonds are characterized by average lifetimes that initially increase with increasing tensile force. Recently, they have been implicated in T cell activation, where small numbers of antigenic receptor-ligand bonds at a cell-cell interface can stimulate a T cell. Here, we use computational methods to investigate s...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pullen RH 3rd,Abel SM

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the large increase in macroscopic potassium channel current caused by catecholamines in mammalian cardiac cells. An increase in macroscopic K current could result from either an increase in the single-channel current or by an increase in the number of channels that are open. Therefore, we have measured...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bennett PB,Kass R,Begenisich T

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The theory for determination of the orientation of adsorbed fluorescent molecules using total internal reflection fluorescence, as explained in part I of this series, is illustrated by measurements on adsorbed tetramethylpyridinium porphyrin (H2TMPyP) and porphyrin cytochrome c molecules. The results are encouraging, ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bos MA,Kleijn JM

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glutamate-activated current in photoreceptors has been attributed both to a sodium/glutamate transporter and to a glutamate-activated chloride channel. We have further studied the glutamate-activated current in single, isolated photoreceptors from the tiger salamander using noise analysis on whole-cell patch-clamp...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Larsson HP,Picaud SA,Werblin FS,Lecar H

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monolayers prepared from myelin conserve all the compositional complexity of the natural membrane when spread at the air-water interface. They show a complex pressure-dependent surface pattern that, on compression, changes from the coexistence of two liquid phases to a viscous fractal phase embedded in a liquid phase....

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rosetti CM,Maggio B

更新日期：2007-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+ ATPase was derivatized with 4,4'-diisothiocyanatostilbene-2,2'-sulfonic acid (DIDS), and complete enzyme inactivation was produced with a molecular stoichiometry of one DIDS per ATPase. It was determined by peptide analysis and sequencing that Lys492 and Lys515 were the ATPase residues...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hua S,Inesi G

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently a periplasmic glucose/galactose binding protein, GGRQ26C, immobilized on a gold surface has been used as an active part of a glucose biosensor based on quartz microbalance technique. However the nature of the glucose detection was not clear. Here we have found that the receptor protein film immobilized on the...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sokolov I,Subba-Rao V,Luck LA

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane porin OmpF from Escherichia coli has been reconstituted into lipid bilayers of defined composition, and fluorescence spectroscopy is used to characterize its interaction with the surrounding lipid. OmpF is a trimer within the membrane. It contains two Trp residues per monomer, Trp(214) at the lipid-...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： O'Keeffe AH,East JM,Lee AG

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of the inverted hexagonal (H(II)) phase from the lamellar (L(alpha)) phase of bovine brain-extracted phosphatidylcholine (BBPC) and phosphatidylethanolamine (BBPE) was investigated using 31P-NMR with or without cholesterol. When the ratio of BBPC to BBPE was 1:1, the H(II) formation was observed in the prese...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hayakawa E,Naganuma M,Mukasa K,Shimozawa T,Araiso T

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are proposed to play important roles in intercellular communication. Two classes of EVs can be distinguished based on their intracellular origin. Exosomes are generated within endosomes and released when these fuse with the plasma membrane, whereas ectosomes bud directly from the plasma me...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jackson CE,Scruggs BS,Schaffer JE,Hanson PI

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of the nonionic surfactant dodecylmaltoside (DM) with phosphatidylcholine liposomes was investigated. Permeability alterations were detected as a change in 5(6)-carboxyfluorescein released from the interior of vesicles and bilayer solubilization as a decrease in the static light scattered by liposome s...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： de la Maza A,Parra JL

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entropy Sampling Monte Carlo (ESMC) simulations were carried out to study the thermodynamics of the folding transition in the GCN4 leucine zipper (GCN4-lz) in the context of a reduced model. Using the calculated partition functions for the monomer and dimer, and taking into account the equilibrium between the monomer ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mohanty D,Kolinski A,Skolnick J

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbes inhabiting Earth have adapted to diverse environments of water, air, soil, and often at the interfaces of multiple media. In this study, we focus on the behavior of Caulobacter crescentus, a singly flagellated bacterium, at the air/water interface. Forward swimming C. crescentus swarmer cells tend to get phys...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Morse M,Huang A,Li G,Maxey MR,Tang JX

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A kinetic model of the effect of agonist and anesthetics on ligand-gated ion channels, developed in earlier work, is further refined and used to predict traces observed in fast-perfusion electrophysiological studies on recombinant GABAA receptors under a wide range of agonist and/or anesthetic concentrations. The mode...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lee DK,Albershardt DJ,Cantor RS

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The observation of biological processes at the molecular scale in real time requires high spatial and temporal resolution. Magnetic tweezers are straightforward to implement, free of radiation or photodamage, and provide ample multiplexing capability, but their spatiotemporal resolution has lagged behind that of other...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dulin D,Cui TJ,Cnossen J,Docter MW,Lipfert J,Dekker NH

更新日期：2015-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Early afterdepolarizations (EADs) are voltage oscillations that occur during the repolarizing phase of the cardiac action potential and cause cardiac arrhythmias in a variety of clinical settings. EADs occur in the setting of reduced repolarization reserve and increased inward-over-outward currents, which intuitively ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chang MG,Chang CY,de Lange E,Xu L,O'Rourke B,Karagueuzian HS,Tung L,Marbán E,Garfinkel A,Weiss JN,Qu Z,Abraham MR

更新日期：2012-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The mathematical model of steady-state iron kinetics in the human presented here extends the use of radioactive tracer observations in the determination of erythron maturative and proliferative behavior. Functions descriptive of that behavior appear explicitly in the model together with functions customarily measured ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Nooney GC

更新日期：1965-11-01 00:00:00