INSULIN secretion was traditionally measured with biochemical and immunological methods such as enzyme linked immunosorbant assay and radioimmunoassay. However, these methods can only tell the amount of insulin secret...INSULIN secretion was traditionally measured with biochemical and immunological methods such as enzyme linked immunosorbant assay and radioimmunoassay. However, these methods can only tell the amount of insulin secreted; they give no information about the secretion process or mechanism of exocytosis. In recent years, an imaging technique known as total internal reflection fluorescence （TIRF） microscopy has been employed to study insulin secretion.展开更多
文摘INSULIN secretion was traditionally measured with biochemical and immunological methods such as enzyme linked immunosorbant assay and radioimmunoassay. However, these methods can only tell the amount of insulin secreted; they give no information about the secretion process or mechanism of exocytosis. In recent years, an imaging technique known as total internal reflection fluorescence （TIRF） microscopy has been employed to study insulin secretion.
