Brillouin microscopy: an emerging tool for mechanobiology

High-Frequency Mechanical Properties of Tumors Measured by Brillouin Light Scattering

(2019) Jérémie Margueritat et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Long-term Brillouin imaging of live cells with reduced absorption-mediated damage at 660nm wavelength

(2019) Miloš Nikolić et al.   Biomedical Optics Express

Imaging mechanical properties of sub-micron ECM in live zebrafish using Brillouin microscopy

(2019) Carlo Bevilacqua et al.   Biomedical Optics Express

Direct Three-Dimensional Measurement of Refractive Index via Dual Photon-Phonon Scattering

(2019) Antonio Fiore et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Quantifying cellular forces and biomechanical properties by correlative micropillar traction force and Brillouin microscopy

(2019) Stefano Coppola et al.   Biomedical Optics Express

Mutant FUS and ELAVL4 (HuD) Aberrant Crosstalk in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

(2019) Riccardo De Santis et al.   Cell Reports

Spectral Phasor Analysis for Brillouin Microspectroscopy

(2019) Kareem Elsayad   Frontiers in Physics

Brillouin microscopy

(2018) Seok Hyun Yun et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN OPHTHALMOLOGY

Mechanisms and impact of altered tumour mechanics

(2018) Hamid Mohammadi et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

A comparison of methods to assess cell mechanical properties

(2018) Pei-Hsun Wu et al.   NATURE METHODS

Reply to ‘Water content, not stiffness, dominates Brillouin spectroscopy measurements in hydrated materials’

(2018) Giuliano Scarcelli et al.   NATURE METHODS

Water content, not stiffness, dominates Brillouin spectroscopy measurements in hydrated materials

(2018) Pei-Jung Wu et al.   NATURE METHODS

β-Catenin–dependent mechanotransduction dates back to the common ancestor of Cnidaria and Bilateria

(2018) Ekaterina Pukhlyakova et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mechanical Mapping of Spinal Cord Growth and Repair in Living Zebrafish Larvae by Brillouin Imaging

(2018) Raimund Schlüßler et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Tissue stiffening coordinates morphogenesis by triggering collective cell migration in vivo

(2018) Elias H. Barriga et al.   NATURE

Intracellular mechanics: connecting rheology and mechanotransduction

(2018) Samuel Mathieu et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Multiscale force sensing in development

(2017) Nicoletta I. Petridou et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Mechanoreciprocity in cell migration

(2017) Sjoerd van Helvert et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

The emergence of optical elastography in biomedicine

(2017) Brendan F. Kennedy et al.   Nature Photonics

Mechanobiology of YAP and TAZ in physiology and disease

(2017) Tito Panciera et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Integration of spectral coronagraphy within VIPA-based spectrometers for high extinction Brillouin imaging

(2017) Eitan Edrei et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Dark-field Brillouin microscopy

(2017) Giuseppe Antonacci   OPTICS LETTERS

Cell volume change through water efflux impacts cell stiffness and stem cell fate

(2017) Ming Guo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Improving localization precision of Brillouin measurements using spectral autocorrelation analysis

(2017) Eitan Edrei et al.   Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences

Viscoelasticity of amyloid plaques in transgenic mouse brain studied by Brillouin microspectroscopy and correlative Raman analysis

(2017) Sara Mattana et al.   Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences

Organ sculpting by patterned extracellular matrix stiffness

(2017) Justin Crest et al.   eLife

Non-contact mechanical and chemical analysis of single living cells by microspectroscopic techniques

(2017) Sara Mattana et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Impulsive Brillouin microscopy

(2017) Charles W. Ballmann et al.   Optica

Boron films produced by high energy Pulsed Laser Deposition

(2017) D. Dellasega et al.   MATERIALS & DESIGN

High-extinction virtually imaged phased array-based Brillouin spectroscopy of turbid biological media

(2016) Antonio Fiore et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Cellular Stiffness as a Novel Stemness Marker in the Corneal Limbus

(2016) Tom Bongiorno et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Cell elasticity with altered cytoskeletal architectures across multiple cell types

(2016) Martha E. Grady et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Cell refractive index for cell biology and disease diagnosis: past, present and future

(2016) P. Y. Liu et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Pushing, pulling, and squeezing our way to understanding mechanotransduction

(2016) Michael J. Siedlik et al.   METHODS

In vivo quantification of spatially varying mechanical properties in developing tissues

(2016) Friedhelm Serwane et al.   NATURE METHODS

Shear Brillouin light scattering microscope

(2016) Moonseok Kim et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Background-free Brillouin spectroscopy in scattering media at 780  nm via stimulated Brillouin scattering

(2016) Itay Remer et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Mapping the subcellular mechanical properties of live cells in tissues with fluorescence emission-Brillouin imaging

(2016) K. Elsayad et al.   Science Signaling

Mapping the subcellular mechanical properties of live cells in tissues with fluorescence emission-Brillouin imaging

(2016) K. Elsayad et al.   Science Signaling

Breaking the Contrast Limit in Single-Pass Fabry-Pérot Spectrometers

(2016) G. Antonacci et al.   Physical Review Applied

Biomechanics of subcellular structures by non-invasive Brillouin microscopy

(2016) Giuseppe Antonacci et al.   Scientific Reports

Dual Raman-Brillouin Microscope for Chemical and Mechanical Characterization and Imaging

(2015) Andrew J. Traverso et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Elastic suppression in Brillouin imaging by destructive interference

(2015) Giuseppe Antonacci et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Quantification of plaque stiffness by Brillouin microscopy in experimental thin cap fibroatheroma

(2015) Giuseppe Antonacci et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Matrix stiffness drives epithelial–mesenchymal transition and tumour metastasis through a TWIST1–G3BP2 mechanotransduction pathway

(2015) Spencer C. Wei et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Real-time deformability cytometry: on-the-fly cell mechanical phenotyping

(2015) Oliver Otto et al.   NATURE METHODS

Noncontact three-dimensional mapping of intracellular hydromechanical properties by Brillouin microscopy

(2015) Giuliano Scarcelli et al.   NATURE METHODS

Microrheology with Optical Tweezers: Measuring the relative viscosity of solutions ‘at a glance’

(2015) Manlio Tassieri et al.   Scientific Reports

Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Microscopic Imaging

(2015) Charles W. Ballmann et al.   Scientific Reports

In Vivo Biomechanical Mapping of Normal and Keratoconus Corneas

(2015) Giuliano Scarcelli et al.   JAMA Ophthalmology

Mechanical mapping with chemical specificity by confocal Brillouin and Raman microscopy

(2014) F. Palombo et al.   ANALYST

Brillouin spectroscopy as a new method of screening for increased CSF total protein during bacterial meningitis

(2014) Zachary Steelman et al.   Journal of Biophotonics

Prestress in the extracellular matrix sensitizes latent TGF-β1 for activation

(2014) Franco Klingberg et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Biomechanics of fibrous proteins of the extracellular matrix studied by Brillouin scattering

(2014) F. Palombo et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Background clean-up in Brillouin microspectroscopy of scattering medium

(2014) Zhaokai Meng et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Spectral broadening in Brillouin imaging

(2013) Giuseppe Antonacci et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Forces in Tissue Morphogenesis and Patterning

(2013) Carl-Philipp Heisenberg et al.   CELL

Cytosystems dynamics in self-organization of tissue architecture

(2013) Yoshiki Sasai   NATURE

Non-invasive determination of the complete elastic moduli of spider silks

(2013) Kristie J. Koski et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

The cytoplasm of living cells behaves as a poroelastic material

(2013) Emad Moeendarbary et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Substrate stiffness regulates cadherin-dependent collective migration through myosin-II contractility

(2012) Mei Rosa Ng et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

In vivo Brillouin optical microscopy of the human eye

(2012) Giuliano Scarcelli et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

In Vivo Measurement of Age-Related Stiffening in the Crystalline Lens by Brillouin Optical Microscopy

(2011) Giuliano Scarcelli et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Matrix Crosslinking Forces Tumor Progression by Enhancing Integrin Signaling

(2009) Kandice R. Levental et al.   CELL

Increased leukaemia cell stiffness is associated with symptoms of leucostasis in paediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

(2008) Wilbur A. Lam et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY

Optical tweezers for single cells

(2008) H. Zhang et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Pulsed contractions of an actin–myosin network drive apical constriction

(2008) Adam C. Martin et al.   NATURE

Mechanotransduction in vascular physiology and atherogenesis

(2008) Cornelia Hahn et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY