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Triggering Cell Stress and Death Using Conventional UV Laser Confocal Microscopy
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Neurosciences
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Triggering Cell Stress and Death Using Conventional UV Laser Confocal Microscopy

Triggering Cell Stress and Death Using Conventional UV Laser Confocal Microscopy

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February 03, 2017

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10:18 min
February 03, 2017

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Targeted manipulations to cause directed stress or death in individual cells have been relatively difficult to accomplish. Here, a single-cell-resolution ablation approach to selectively stress and kill individual cells in cell culture and living animals is described based on a standard confocal UV laser.

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