The lack of a unified name for this technology makes reviewing the literature on the subject very difficult. Optical injection has been described using over a dozen different names or phrases (see bulleted lists below). Some trends in the literature are clear. The first term of the technique is invariably a derivation of word laser, optical, or photo, and the second term is usually in reference to injection, transfection, poration, perforation or puncture. Like many cellular perturbations, when a single cell or group of cells is treated with a laser, three things can happen: the cell dies (overdose), the cell membrane is permeabilised, substances enter, and the cell recovers (therapeutic dose), or nothing happens (underdose). There have been suggestions in the literature to reserve the term optoinjection for when a therapeutic dose is delivered upon a single cell, and the term optoporation for when a laser generated shockwave treats a cluster of many (10s to 100s) cells. The first definition of optoinjection is uncontroversial. The definition of optoporation, however, has failed to be adopted, with a similar number of references using the term to denote the dosing of single cells as those using the term to denote the simultaneous dosing of clusters of many cells
As the field stands, it is the opinion of the authors of a review article on the subject that the term optoinjection always be included as a keyword in future publications, regardless of their own naming preferences.
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