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ReviewMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2011

Single-particle tracking as a quantitative microscopy-based approach to unravel cell entry mechanisms of viruses and pharmaceutical nanoparticles.

Nadia Ruthardt, Don C Lamb, Christoph Bräuchle

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Review in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 99 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

99 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Nadia RuthardtDepartment of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.
Don C Lamb
Christoph Bräuchle

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Highly sensitive fluorescence microscopy techniques allow single nanoparticles to be tracked during their uptake into living cells with high temporal and spatial resolution. From analysis of the trajectories, random motion can be discriminated from active transport and the average transport velocity and/or diffusion coefficient determined. Such an analysis provides important information regarding the uptake pathway and location of viruses and nanoparticles. In this review, we give an introduction into single-particle tracking (SPT) and determination of the mean-squared displacement. We also give an overview of recent advances in SPT. These include millisecond alternating-laser excitation for removal of spectral crosstalk, alternating wide-field (WF), and total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy for sensitive experiments at the plasma membrane and three-dimensional tracking strategies. Throughout the review, we highlight recent advances regarding the entry (and egress) of natural and artificial viruses obtained via SPT.

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NanoparticlesVirusesCell MembraneMicroscopy, FluorescenceModels, Theoretical

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PMID21654634
PMCPMC3129551

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