Assessing dystrophies and other muscle diseases at the nanometer scale by atomic force microscopy

van Zwieten, Ruthger W; Puttini, Stefania; Lekka, Małgorzata; Witz, Guillaume; Gicquel-Zouida, Evelyne; Richard, Isabelle; Lobrinus, Johannes Alexander; Chevalley, François; Brune, Harald; Dietler, Giovanni; Kulik, Andrzej; Kuntzer, Thierry; Mermod, Nicolas

doi:10.2217/nnm.12.215

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Assessing dystrophies and other muscle diseases at the nanometer scale by atomic force microscopy

Contributorsvan Zwieten, Ruthger W; Puttini, Stefania; Lekka, Małgorzata; Witz, Guillaume; Gicquel-Zouida, Evelyne; Richard, Isabelle; Lobrinus, Johannes Alexander; Chevalley, François; Brune, Harald; Dietler, Giovanni; Kulik, Andrzej; Kuntzer, Thierry; Mermod, Nicolas

Published inNanomedicine, vol. 9, no. 4, p. 393-406

Publication date2014

Abstract

Atomic force microscopy nanoindentation of myofibers was used to assess and quantitatively diagnose muscular dystrophies from human patients.

Keywords

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Animals
Biomechanical Phenomena
Child
Elastic Modulus
Female
Humans
Male
Mice
Microscopy, Atomic Force/methods
Muscle, Skeletal/pathology
Muscular Dystrophies/pathology

Affiliation entities

Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine fondamentale / Département de pathologie et immunologie

Research groups

Etudes et traitement de l'hépatite C et B (554)

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VAN ZWIETEN, Ruthger W et al. Assessing dystrophies and other muscle diseases at the nanometer scale by atomic force microscopy. In: Nanomedicine, 2014, vol. 9, n° 4, p. 393–406. doi: 10.2217/nnm.12.215

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PID : unige:55104
DOI : 10.2217/nnm.12.215
PMID : 24910872

Journal ISSN1549-9634

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Assessing dystrophies and other muscle diseases at the nanometer scale by atomic force microscopy

Atomic force microscopy nanoindentation of myofibers was used to assess and quantitatively diagnose muscular dystrophies from human patients.

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