From Cells to Proteins: Imaging Nature across Dimensions / Nato Security through Science Series B: (PDF)

Preface. Optical Microscopy for Cell Imaging.- Introduction to Transmission and Scanning Electron Microscopy.- Potential and Limitation of Cytochemistry.- Cryotechniques for Electron Microscopy: A Minireview.- Cell Membrane Specializations as Revealed by the Freeze-Fracture Technique.- Imaging, Measuring and Manipulating Biological Matter from the Millimeter to Nanometer Scale.- Inside the Small Length and Energy Scales of the World of the Individual Biological Molecule.- Scanning Probe Microscopy across Dimensions.- Imaging Cells Using Soft X-Rays.- From Microscopy to Nanoscopy: How to Get and Read Optical Data at Single Molecule Level Using Confocal and Two-Photon Excitation Microscopy.- Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM.- Quantum Dots, a New Tool for Real-Time In Vivo Imaging.- Image Acquisition and its Automation in Fluorescence Microscopy.- Stereological and Digital Methods for Estimating Geometrical Characteristics of Biological Structures Using Confocal Microscopy.- Wavelength as the Fourth Dimension in Light Microscopy.- Time as the Fifth Dimension in Microscopy.- Image Deconvolution.- Image Formation in Fluorescence Microscopy: Three-Dimensional Mathematical Model.- Atomic Force Microscopy Study on the Pellicle of the Alga Euglena Gracilis.- Atomic Force Microscopy Study of Pili in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis Sp. Pcc 6803.- Changes of Algae Protein Complex under Ph Effect.- Leaf Fluorescence as Diagnostic Tool for Monitoring Vegetation.- Dynamic Holography for Study of Nonlinear Optical Processes in Biological Photoreceptor Molecule.- "Seeing" Lipid Membranes by Solid-State Nmr.- Visuomotor Coordination in Behaving Pigeons Following Post-Hatching Monocular Experience: An Image Analysis Study.- Index.- List of Contributors.