ReviewFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2020
Optical Tweezers Exploring Neuroscience.
Review in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Neural stimulation and modulation with sub-cellular precision by optomechanical bio-dart.Light, science & applications · 2024Article
- Electromagnetic Forces and Torques: From Dielectrophoresis to Optical Tweezers.Chemical reviews · 2023Review
- Optical tweezers across scales in cell biology.Trends in cell biology · 2022Review
- Biophysical Approaches for Applying and Measuring Biological Forces.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022Review
- Engineered cell culture microenvironments for mechanobiology studies of brain neural cells.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Review
- Optical manipulation: advances for biophotonics in the 21st century.Journal of biomedical optics · 2021Review
- Cubic-Phase Metasurface for Three-Dimensional Optical Manipulation.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Over the past decade, optical tweezers (OT) have been increasingly used in neuroscience for studies of molecules and neuronal dynamics, as well as for the study of model organisms as a whole. Compared to other areas of biology, it has taken much longer for OT to become an established tool in neuroscience. This is, in part, due to the complexity of the brain and the inherent difficulties in trapping individual molecules or manipulating cells located deep within biological tissue. Recent advances in OT, as well as parallel developments in imaging and adaptive optics, have significantly extended the capabilities of OT. In this review, we describe how OT became an established tool in neuroscience and we elaborate on possible future directions for the field. Rather than covering all applications of OT to neurons or related proteins and molecules, we focus our discussions on studies that provide crucial information to neuroscience, such as neuron dynamics, growth, and communication, as these studies have revealed meaningful information and provide direction for the field into the future.
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