Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tassieri, Manlio

Titel

Linear microrheology with optical tweezers of living cells 'is not an option'

Ist Teil von

• Soft matter, 2015-08, Vol.11 (29), p.5792-5798

Ort / Verlag

England

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Optical tweezers have been successfully adopted as exceptionally sensitive transducers for microrheology studies of complex fluids. Despite the general trend, in this article I explain why a similar approach should not be adopted for microrheology studies of living cells. This conclusion is acheived on the basis of statistical mechanics principles that indicate the unsuitability of optical tweezers for such purpose. Optical tweezers are exceptional tools for microrheology studies of viscoelastic fluids and complex solids, but not for those of living cells.