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ArticleCytometry. Part A : the journal of the International Society for Analytical Cytology2021

Refractive Index Changes of Cells and Cellular Compartments Upon Paraformaldehyde Fixation Acquired by Tomographic Phase Microscopy.

Maria Baczewska, Kai Eder, Steffi Ketelhut, Björn Kemper, Małgorzata Kujawińska

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Article in Cytometry. Part A : the journal of the International Society for Analytical Cytology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Maria BaczewskaWarsaw University of Technology, Institute of Micromechanics and Photonics, Sw. Boboli 8 St., Warsaw, 02-525, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-3945-3114
Kai EderBiomedical Technology Center of the Medical Faculty, University of Muenster Mendelstr 17, Muenster, D-48149, Germany.
Steffi KetelhutBiomedical Technology Center of the Medical Faculty, University of Muenster Mendelstr 17, Muenster, D-48149, Germany.
Björn KemperBiomedical Technology Center of the Medical Faculty, University of Muenster Mendelstr 17, Muenster, D-48149, Germany.
Małgorzata KujawińskaWarsaw University of Technology, Institute of Micromechanics and Photonics, Sw. Boboli 8 St., Warsaw, 02-525, Poland.
University of Münster · DEWarsaw University of Technology · PL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Three-dimensional quantitative phase imaging is an emerging method, which provides the 3D distribution of the refractive index (RI) and the dry mass in live and fixed cells as well as in tissues. However, an insufficiently answered question is the influence of chemical cell fixation procedures on the results of RI reconstructions. Therefore, this work is devoted to systematic investigations on the RI in cellular organelles of live and fixed cells including nucleus, nucleolus, nucleoplasm, and cytoplasm. The research was carried out on four different cell lines using a common paraformaldehyde (PFA)-based fixation protocol. The selected cell types represent the diversity of mammalian cells and therefore the results presented provide a picture of fixation caused RI changes in a broader context. A commercial Tomocube HT-1S device was used for 3D RI acquisition. The changes in the RI values after the fixation process are detected in the reconstructed phase distributions and amount to the order of 10

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MicroscopyRefractometryFormaldehydePolymersTomographyFormaldehydeparaformPolymerscell analysisholographic tomographyholographyparaformaldehyde fixationquantitative phase imagingrefractive indextomographic phase microscopy

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