Abstract
A living cell can be described as a highly dynamical organism where different kinds of physiological processes may happen simultaneously. These processes take place at different length scales and are strongly influenced by each other. In order to circumvent the complexity and the dynamics of biological systems, so far many of the processes have been studied mostly in vitro through the use of two-dimensional molecular assemblies as model systems. Such an approach is very useful for monitoring physiological processes in vitro, but it hardly can be applied for an accurate description of the native process in a living cell or tissue, since it represents a multicomponent chemical context where each of cellular constituents can be involved in more than one process simultaneously. True investigations of the cellular dynamics in vivo are challenging and complicated but paramount at different levels from the cellular metabolism of each cell in particular until physiological processes on the macro scale like tissue formation, degeneration, or geo-mineral formation involving bio-mineralization.
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- Atomic Force Microscopy
- Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy
- Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
- Electron Dense Deposit
- Cellular Dynamic
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Mittal, V., Matsko, N.B. (2012). Cellular Dynamics (Protein Transport, Mineralization In vivo). In: Analytical Imaging Techniques for Soft Matter Characterization. Engineering Materials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30400-2_6
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