With pinacyanol as the supravital stain, a preferential effect on mitochondria of KB cells was achieved by the irradiation with the ruby laser beam. The observation confirmed the results of other workers using janus green B in the same experimental system. The preferential effect on mitochondria was noted in the area extending 8–10 µ beyond the nonpreferential damage of 4–5 µ in diameter. The opaque material associated with mitochondria possibly represented coagulated protein. The effect involved cristae mitochondriales without severe disarrangement of their structure. The opaque material could be interpreted as the result of direct interaction between mitochondria and the laser beam, even though the mitochondria were noted outside of the previously estimated focal spot size of about 3 µ Within the thickness of 2–4 µ of monolayered cells, larger areas of damage can be accounted for by divergence of the beam which is focused by a microscope objective of very short focal length. A threshold of biologic effectiveness is probably also involved.
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EFFECT OF THE RUBY LASER MICROBEAM ON MITOCHONDRIA OF KB CELLS SUPRAVITALLY STAINED BY PINACYANOL
Yasukazu Tanaka
Yasukazu Tanaka
From the Institut de Pathologie Cellulaire, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Paris, France. The author's present address is the Veterans Administration Hospital, San Francisco, California 94121
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Yasukazu Tanaka
From the Institut de Pathologie Cellulaire, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Paris, France. The author's present address is the Veterans Administration Hospital, San Francisco, California 94121
Received:
August 29 1968
Revision Received:
December 30 1968
Online ISSN: 1540-8140
Print ISSN: 0021-9525
Copyright © 1969 by The Rockefeller University Press.
1969
J Cell Biol (1969) 41 (2): 424–430.
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Received:
August 29 1968
Revision Received:
December 30 1968
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Yasukazu Tanaka; EFFECT OF THE RUBY LASER MICROBEAM ON MITOCHONDRIA OF KB CELLS SUPRAVITALLY STAINED BY PINACYANOL . J Cell Biol 1 May 1969; 41 (2): 424–430. doi: https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.41.2.424
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