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It’s time to test new technology!

It’s time to test new technology!

IMPETUX wants to start the new year offering new services.

A new free loan service is now available for anyone who wants to test our optical force measurement systems. If you have your own optical tweezers and you are working on some experiments where you need to measure the forces applied while manipulating, these are your instruments.

LumanT10iDEIMUS T-10i
Compatible with Nikon, Olympus and Zeiss inverted microscopes

slider_03LUNAM T-40i
Compatible with Nikon inverted microscopes

The T series provide you with the confidence and reliability that your experiments require so you only need to worry about the results

If you are interested in our systems and want to test them, contact us for more details about the free loan service!

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Fig. 1

Time dependence of trap position (top), force signal (middle) and Ca2+ fluorescence signal (bottom) recorded during a membrane tether pulling experiment. The force and Ca2+ ion channel activity signals exhibit negative correlation.

Fig. 2

Force and displacement data for two beads stimulated at frequencies of 4 Hz and 0.25 Hz. The progressive reduction of the beads displacement is in concomitancy with an increase of the applied force and loading rate.

Fig. 1

Schematic representation of the optical tweezers experiment. A fibronectin-coated bead is trapped, brought into contact with the cell membrane and stimulated with oscillations at different frequencies.

Fig.2

Time dependence of trap 1 and trap 2 position (top) and force (bottom) data along the different steps of the described dual tether pulling experiment.

Fig.1

Confocal video of the described dual tether pulling assay performed on a neuron axon. Courtesy of M. Krieg lab (ICFO).

Fig. 1

Time dependence of trap position (top), force signal (middle) and Ca2+ fluorescence signal (bottom) recorded during a membrane tether pulling experiment. The force and Ca2+ ion channel activity signals exhibit negative correlation.

Video 1

Confocal video showing a DVA neuron Ca2+ ion channel activity in a dynamic optical trapping assay. The pulling rate applied to the membrane tether is progressively increased. Scale bar = 5µm. Acquired at 10Hz.