Selective Mitochondrial Damage by a Ruby Laser Microbeam: An Electron Microscopic Study

5 November 1965

journal article
research article
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 150 (3697) , 756-758
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.150.3697.756

Abstract

A pulsed ruby laser microbeam produces changes in single living cells stained with a low concentration of Janus green B. Electron micrographs show that such alterations are the result of morphological damage sustained by and restricted to the mitochondria in the irradiated area.

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