"Optical Tweezers" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A technique that uses LASERS to trap, image, and manipulate small objects (biomolecules, supramolecular assembles, DENDRIMERS) in three dimensional space. (From Glossary of Biotechnology and Nanobiotechnology Terms, 4th ed.)
| Descriptor ID |
D052898
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.650
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| Concept/Terms |
Optical Tweezers- Optical Tweezers
- Optical Tweezer
- Tweezer, Optical
- Tweezers, Optical
- Optical Trapping
- Trapping, Optical
- Laser Tweezers
- Laser Tweezer
- Tweezer, Laser
- Tweezers, Laser
- Optical Trap
- Optical Traps
- Trap, Optical
- Traps, Optical
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| 2012 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Optical Tweezers" by people in Profiles.
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Blackwell T, Stump WT, Clippinger SR, Greenberg MJ. Computational Tool for Ensemble Averaging of Single-Molecule Data. Biophys J. 2021 01 05; 120(1):10-20.
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Woody MS, Greenberg MJ, Barua B, Winkelmann DA, Goldman YE, Ostap EM. Positive cardiac inotrope omecamtiv mecarbil activates muscle despite suppressing the myosin working stroke. Nat Commun. 2018 09 21; 9(1):3838.
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Bugiel M, Mitra A, Girardo S, Diez S, Sch?ffer E. Measuring Microtubule Supertwist and Defects by Three-Dimensional-Force-Clamp Tracking of Single Kinesin-1 Motors. Nano Lett. 2018 02 14; 18(2):1290-1295.
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Greenberg MJ, Shuman H, Ostap EM. Measuring the Kinetic and Mechanical Properties of Non-processive Myosins Using Optical Tweezers. Methods Mol Biol. 2017; 1486:483-509.
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Wang Y, Zhao L, Suzuki A, Lian L, Min SH, Wang Z, Litvinov RI, Stalker TJ, Yago T, Klopocki AG, Schmidtke DW, Yin H, Choi JK, McEver RP, Weisel JW, Hartwig JH, Abrams CS. Platelets lacking PIP5KI? have normal integrin activation but impaired cytoskeletal-membrane integrity and adhesion. Blood. 2013 Apr 04; 121(14):2743-52.
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Greenberg MJ, Lin T, Goldman YE, Shuman H, Ostap EM. Myosin IC generates power over a range of loads via a new tension-sensing mechanism. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Sep 11; 109(37):E2433-40.
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Chen C, Greenberg MJ, Laakso JM, Ostap EM, Goldman YE, Shuman H. Kinetic schemes for post-synchronized single molecule dynamics. Biophys J. 2012 Mar 21; 102(6):L23-5.