Probing the unseen structure and function of liver cells through atomic force microscopy

F Braet, DJ Taatjes, E Wisse - Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 2018 - Elsevier
With the arrival of atomic force microscopy (AFM) about thirty years ago, this new imaging
tool opened up a new area for the exploration of biological samples, ranging from the tissue …

Biophysical nanocharacterization of liver sinusoidal endothelial cells through atomic force microscopy

B Zapotoczny, F Braet, E Wisse, M Lekka… - Biophysical …, 2020 - Springer
The structural-functional hallmark of the liver sinusoidal endothelium is the presence of
fenestrae grouped in sieve plates. Fenestrae are open membrane bound pores supported …

LSEC fenestrae are preserved despite pro-inflammatory phenotype of liver sinusoidal endothelial cells in mice on high fat diet

E Kus, P Kaczara, I Czyzynska-Cichon… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Healthy liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs) maintain liver homeostasis, while LSEC
dysfunction was suggested to coincide with defenestration. Here, we have revisited the …

Atomic force microscopy reveals the dynamic morphology of fenestrations in live liver sinusoidal endothelial cells

B Zapotoczny, K Szafranska, K Owczarczyk, E Kus… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Here, we report an atomic force microscopy (AFM)-based imaging method for resolving the
fine nanostructures (eg, fenestrations) in the membranes of live primary murine liver …

Characterizing liver sinusoidal endothelial cell fenestrae on soft substrates upon AFM imaging and deep learning

P Li, J Zhou, W Li, H Wu, J Hu, Q Ding, S Lü… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs) display unique fenestrated
morphology. Alterations in the size and number of fenestrae play a crucial role in the …

Fenestrations in the liver sinusoidal endothelial cell

VC Cogger, NJ Hunt… - The liver: biology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs) occupy a strategic position in the liver, separating
blood in the sinusoid from the extracellular space of Disse and surrounding sheets of …

Actin‐spectrin scaffold supports open fenestrae in liver sinusoidal endothelial cells

B Zapotoczny, F Braet, E Kus, K Ginda‐Mäkelä… - Traffic, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Fenestrae are open transmembrane pores that are a structural hallmark of healthy liver
sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs). Their key role is the transport of solutes and …

New ways of looking at very small holes–using optical nanoscopy to visualize liver sinusoidal endothelial cell fenestrations

CI Øie, V Mönkemöller, W Hübner, M Schüttpelz… - …, 2018 - degruyter.com
Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, also known as nanoscopy, has provided us with
a glimpse of future impacts on cell biology. Far-field optical nanoscopy allows, for the first …

Quantification of fenestrations in liver sinusoidal endothelial cells by atomic force microscopy

B Zapotoczny, K Szafranska, E Kus, S Chlopicki… - Micron, 2017 - Elsevier
Liver sinusoidal endothelial cells present unique morphology characterized by the presence
of transmembrane pores called fenestrations. The size and number of fenestrations in live …

AFM image analysis of porous structures by means of neural networks

M Giergiel, B Zapotoczny, I Czyzynska-Cichon… - … Signal Processing and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, we presented a method of finding and characterising transmembrane porous
structures, called fenestrations, with the help of convolutional neural networks. Case studies …