Fluorescence Microscopy Of Living Cells In Culture

Fluorescence Microscopy of Living Cells in Culture, Part B

Fluorescence Microscopy of Living Cells in Culture, Part A

Annotation On preparation, delivery, and detection of fluorescent probes. Discusses factors which determine the destination of probes and methods for delivering them to specific sites in living cells. Includes issues related to sample physiology (microscopic cell culture), optics (basic fluorescence microscopy), and signal detection (electric photometry and imaging, immunoelectron microscopic detection of fluorophores). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Recent advances in imaging technology reveal, in real time and great detail, critical changes in living cells and organisms. This manual is a compendium of emerging techniques, organized into two parts: specific methods such as fluorescent labeling, and delivery and detection of labeled molecules in cells; and experimental approaches ranging from the detection of single molecules to the study of dynamic processes in organelles, organs, and whole animals. Although presented primarily as a laboratory manual, the book includes introductory and background material and could be used as a textbook in advanced courses. It also includes a DVD containing movies of living cells in action, created by investigators using the imaging techniques discussed in the book. The editors, David Spector and Robert Goldman, whose previous book was Cells: A Laboratory Manual,are highly respected investigators who have taught microscopy courses at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the Marine Biology Laboratory at Woods Hole, and Northwestern University.