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A thermal study of cellular motility by optical time-resolved correlation
Authors:Sierra-Valdez F J  Cisneros-Mejorado A J  Sánchez Herrera D P  Ruiz-Suárez J C
Affiliation:Cinvestav-Monterrey, Vi?a del Conocimiento 201, PIIT, Autopista al Aeropuerto, Km. 9.5, Apodaca NL 66600, Mexico.
Abstract:
The study of motor properties of cells under appropriate physical-chemical conditions is a significant problem nowadays. The standard techniques presently used do not allow to evaluate neither large samples nor to control their thermodynamic conditions. In this work, we report a cell motility sensor based on an optical technique with a time-resolved correlation, adapted in a system able to study several samples simultaneously. Image correlation analysis is used to follow their temporal behavior. A wide variety of motile cells, such as archaea, bacteria, spermatozoa, and even contractile cells, can be studied using this technique. Here, we tested our technique with the study of sperm motility. In particular, both the sperm motility and its prevalence are studied under a temperature range from 0 to 37 °C. We found that incubation at 10 °C presents the lengthiest prevalence in motility and observed, for the first time, an interesting thermal reversibility behavior.
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