Technical Reference #859

Glass Bottom Culture Dishes

This study used MatTek product(s):

Citation in paper containing MatTek reference:
35 mm glass-bottom cell culture dishes (MatTek; Ashland; MA)

859.

Fast Fluorescence Laser Tracking Microrheometry Ii: Quantitative Studies Of Cytoskeletal Mechanotransduction Maxine Jonas; Hayden Huang; Roger D. Kamm; and Peter T.C. So, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, BioPhysical Journal, 95(859), (2008)
Link To Paper

Abstract:
Fluorescence laser tracking microrheometry (FLTM) is what we believe to be a novel method able to assess the local frequency-dependent mechanical properties of living cells with nanometer spatial sensitivity at speeds up to 50kHz. In an earlier article

Keywords:
Rheology; cytoskeleton; mechanotransduction; Brownian motion; high resolution. Condensed running title: FLTM II

Materials & Methods:
The day prior to the fluorescence laser tracking experiments fibroblasts were plated on 35 mm glass-bottom cell culture dishes (MatTek Ashland MA)

Microscopic Technique
Fluorescence Microscopy

Cell Type(s)
3T3