Atomic force microscopy : biomedical methods and applications

How the Atomic Force microscope works / Davide Ricci and Pier Carlo Braga -- Imaging methods in atomic force microscopy / Davide Ricci and Pier Carlo Braga -- Recognizing and avoiding artifacts in AFM imaging / Davide Ricci and Pier Carlo Braga -- Advanced biosensing using micromechanical cantilever arrays / Martin Hegner and Youri Arntz. Analysis of human fibroblasts by atomic force microscopy / Gillian R. Bushell ... [et al.] -- Corneal tissue observed by atomic force microscopy Stylliani Lydataki ... [et al.] -- AFM study of surface structure changes in mouse spermatozoa associated with maturation / Hiroko Takano and Kazuhiro Abe -- Calculation of cuticle step heights from AFM images of outer surfaces of human hair / James R. Smith -- Imaging living chondrocyte surface structures with AFM contact mode / Gerlinde Bischoff ... [et al.] -- Growth cones of living neurons probed by atomic force microscopy / Davide Ricci, Massimo Grattarola, and Mariateresa Tedesco -- Evaluating demineralization and mechanical properties of human dentin with AFM / Grayson W. Marshall Jr. ... [et al.] -- Applying atomic force microscopy to studies in cardiac physiology / Jason J. Davis, Trevor Powell, and H. Allen O. Hill -- Imaging bacterial shape, surface, and appendages before and after treatments with antibiotics / Pier Carlo Braga and Davide Ricci. Visualizing nuclear structure In Situ by atomic force microscopy / Luis Felipe Jimnez-Garcia and Mar a de Lourdes Segura-Valdez -- Imaging surface and submembranous structures in living cells with the atomic force microscope: notes and tricks / Filip Braet and Eddie Wisse -- Atomic force microscopy of protein complexes / Olga I. Kiselyova and Igor V. Yaminsky -- Atomic force microscopy of interfacial monomolecular films of pulmonary surfactant / Kaushik Nag ... [et al.] -- High-resolution analysis of the 3D organization of human metaphase chromosomes / Stefan Thalhammer ... [et al.] -- Shape and volume of living aldosterone-sensitive cells imaged with the atomic force microscope / Stefan W. Schneider ... [et al.] -- Localization of epithelial sodium channels by atomic force microscopy / Peter R. Smith and Dale J. Benos -- High-resolution AFM imaging of bacteriorhodopsin / Dimitrios Fotiadis and Andreas Engel. Measurement of mechanical properties of intact endothelial cells in fresh arteries / Hiroshi Miyazaki and Kozaburo Hayashi -- Observation of oxidative stress on yeast cells / Ricardo de Souza Pereira -- Lymphoblastoid cells exposed to low-frequency magnetic fields: study by atomic force microscopy / Settimio Grimaldi, Marco Girasole, and Antonio Cricenti -- Sample preparation method for observing RNA polymerase activity by atomic force microscopy / Sandor Kasas -- Atomic force microscopy of B-Amyloid: static and dynamic studies of nanostructure and its formation / Justin Legleiter and Tomasz Kowalewski -- How to build up biosensors with the cantilever of the atomic force microscope / Ricardo de Souza Pereira -- Measurement of single molecular interactions by dynamic force microscopy / Martin Hegner, Wilfried Grange, and Patricia Bertoncini