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ReviewCurrent opinion in chemical biology2014

Fluorescence cryo-microscopy: current challenges and prospects.

Rainer Kaufmann, Christoph Hagen, Kay Grünewald

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Review in Current opinion in chemical biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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  3. Time-deterministic cryo-optical microscopy.Light, science & applications · 2025
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  10. Bleaching-Resistant Super-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022
    Review
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  13. The Journal of biological chemistry · 2020
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  15. Soft X-ray tomography: virtual sculptures from cell cultures.Current opinion in structural biology · 2019
    Review
  16. Fluorescence-Based Detection of Membrane Fusion State on a Cryo-EM Grid using Correlated Cryo-Fluorescence and Cryo-Electron Microscopy.Microscopy and microanalysis : the official journal of Microscopy Society of America, Microbeam Analysis Society, Microscopical Society of Canada · 2019
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  17. The 2018 correlative microscopy techniques roadmap.Journal of physics D: Applied physics · 2018
    Review
  18. Aberration-corrected cryoimmersion light microscopy.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Rainer KaufmannDivision of Structural Biology, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK; Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK.
Christoph HagenDivision of Structural Biology, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK.
Kay GrünewaldDivision of Structural Biology, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK. Electronic address: kay@strubi.ox.ac.uk.

Funding

Wellcome Trust 090532/Z/09/ZWellcome Trust 090895Wellcome Trust 090895/Z/09/ZWellcome Trust 091911
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Studying biological structures with fine details does not only require a microscope with high resolution, but also a sample preparation process that preserves the structures in a near-native state. Live-cell imaging is restricted mostly to the field of light microscopy. For studies requiring much higher resolution, fast freezing techniques (vitrification) are successfully used to immobilize the sample in a near-native state for imaging with electron and X-ray cryo-microscopy. Fluorescence cryo-microscopy combines imaging of vitrified samples with the advantages of fluorescence labeling of biological structures. Technical considerations as well as the behavior of fluorophores at low temperatures have to be taken into account for developing or adapting super-resolution methods under cryo conditions to exploit the full potential of this technique.

Indexed as

Fluorescent DyesHumansMicroscopy, FluorescenceTemperatureFluorescent Dyes

Identifiers

PMID24951858
PMCPMC4094034

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