Article ; Online: Coherent light scattering from cellular dynamics in living tissues.
Reports on progress in physics. Physical Society (Great Britain)
2024 Volume 87, Issue 3
Abstract: This review examines the biological physics of intracellular transport probed by the coherent optics of dynamic light scattering from optically thick living tissues. Cells and their constituents are in constant motion, composed of a broad range of speeds ...
| Abstract | This review examines the biological physics of intracellular transport probed by the coherent optics of dynamic light scattering from optically thick living tissues. Cells and their constituents are in constant motion, composed of a broad range of speeds spanning many orders of magnitude that reflect the wide array of functions and mechanisms that maintain cellular health. From the organelle scale of tens of nanometers and upward in size, the motion inside living tissue is actively driven rather than thermal, propelled by the hydrolysis of bioenergetic molecules and the forces of molecular motors. Active transport can mimic the random walks of thermal Brownian motion, but mean-squared displacements are far from thermal equilibrium and can display anomalous diffusion through Lévy or fractional Brownian walks. Despite the average isotropic three-dimensional environment of cells and tissues, active cellular or intracellular transport of single light-scattering objects is often pseudo-one-dimensional, for instance as organelle displacement persists along cytoskeletal tracks or as membranes displace along the normal to cell surfaces, albeit isotropically oriented in three dimensions. Coherent light scattering is a natural tool to characterize such tissue dynamics because persistent directed transport induces Doppler shifts in the scattered light. The many frequency-shifted partial waves from the complex and dynamic media interfere to produce dynamic speckle that reveals tissue-scale processes through speckle contrast imaging and fluctuation spectroscopy. Low-coherence interferometry, dynamic optical coherence tomography, diffusing-wave spectroscopy, diffuse-correlation spectroscopy, differential dynamic microscopy and digital holography offer coherent detection methods that shed light on intracellular processes. In health-care applications, altered states of cellular health and disease display altered cellular motions that imprint on the statistical fluctuations of the scattered light. For instance, the efficacy of medical therapeutics can be monitored by measuring the changes they induce in the Doppler spectra of living |
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| MeSH term(s) | Cell Membrane ; Cell Movement ; Cytoskeleton ; Biological Transport ; Dynamic Light Scattering |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2024-03-04 |
| Publishing country | England |
| Document type | Journal Article ; Review |
| ZDB-ID | 205657-4 |
| ISSN | 1361-6633 ; 0034-4885 |
| ISSN (online) | 1361-6633 |
| ISSN | 0034-4885 |
| DOI | 10.1088/1361-6633/ad2229 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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