Use of ferrimagnetic particles as a probe for phagocytic activities and intracellular movements of microstructures of pulmonary macrophages.
Magnetic particles such as Ni and gamma-Fe2O3 were used for estimating the phagocytic rate of hamster pulmonary macrophages in vivo and investigating various aspects of intracellular movement of organelles and filamentous structures. This technique, though in its premature stage, implies quite a large area of applications from cellular physiology to environmental sciences. This paper briefly reviews our work done in this field to date.
Nemoto
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Tokyo Denki University, Saitama, Japan.
D000818:Animals; D001992:Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid / Q000166:cytology; D006801:Humans; D016676:Macrophages, Alveolar / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008280:Magnetics; D015388:Organelles / Q000502:physiology; D010587:Phagocytosis / Q000502:physiology*