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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 5.
Published in final edited form as: Compr Physiol. 2012 Jan;2(1):1–29. doi: 10.1002/cphy.c100090

Figure 8.

Figure 8

Optical tweezers. (A) A sketch of optical tweezers-based cytorheometer. Optical tweezers were used to manipulate an intracellular granular structure (lamellar body, left circle), or an extracellular antibody coated glass bead (right circle). (B) A bright-field image of lamellar bodies that abundantly exist in alveolar epithelial type II cells. Reprinted (with permission) from reference (282).