| Literature DB >> 24466488 |
Zuoming Qian1, Aghapi Mordovanakis2, Joshua E Schoenly1, Andrés Covarrubias1, Yuanfeng Feng1, Lothar Lilge3, Robin S Marjoribanks1.
Abstract
A 3D living-cell culture in hydrogel has been developed as a standardized low-tensile-strength tissue proxy for study of ultrafast, pulsetrain-burst laser-tissue interactions. The hydrogel is permeable to fluorescent biomarkers and optically transparent, allowing viable and necrotic cells to be imaged in 3D by confocal microscopy. Good cell-viability allowed us to distinguish between typical cell mortality and delayed subcellular tissue damage (e.g., apoptosis and DNA repair complex formation), caused by laser irradiation. The range of necrosis depended on laser intensity, but not on pulsetrain-burst duration. DNA double-strand breaks were quantified, giving a preliminary upper limit for genetic damage following laser treatment.Entities:
Keywords: (140.3440) Laser-induced breakdown; (160.1435) Biomaterials; (170.1020) Ablation of tissue; (170.2520) Fluorescence microscopy; (320.7090) Ultrafast lasers; (350.3390) Laser materials processing
Year: 2013 PMID: 24466488 PMCID: PMC3891333 DOI: 10.1364/BOE.5.000208
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biomed Opt Express ISSN: 2156-7085 Impact factor: 3.732