Fourteen derivatives of cinnamic and acrylic acids were evaluated for their ability to modulate chemiluminescence, evoked by neutrophils that had been exposed to luminol and phorbol-myristate-acetate. Compounds with one or two hydroxyl groups on the phenyl ring demonstrated significant inhibition of the chemiluminescence, but this inhibition was diminished by methoxylation. Saturation of the do...

In this letter, we report the first observation of surface plasmon-coupled chemiluminescence (SPCC), where the luminescence from chemically induced electronic excited states couples to surface plasmons in a thin continuous silver film. The SPCC is highly directional and predominantly p-polarized, strongly suggesting that the emission is from surface plasmons instead of the luminophores directly...

To investigate the hypothesis that reactive oxygen metabolites are important in the pathophysiology of duodenal ulcer disease, their production by duodenal mucosal biopsy specimens was measured using luminol and lucigenin amplified chemiluminescence. Luminol chemiluminescence, expressed as background corrected median photon emission/mg/min x 10(3) (95% confidence intervals), was increased in du...

Human platelets and platelet particulate fractions were found to emit a burst of chemiluminescence during incubation with arachidonic acid. The magnitude of light emission was directly related to the number of platelets in the reaction mixture and varied little for the same individual from day to day. The chemiluminescence response of platelets was localized to the particulate fraction and was ...

A review with 90 references is presented to show the development of acidic chemiluminescence methods for biochemical analysis by use of flow injection technique in the last 10 years. A brief discussion of both the chemiluminescence and flow injection technique is given. The proposed methods for biochemical analysis are described and compared according to the used chemiluminescence system.

Pasteurella haemolytica A1 crude leukotoxin (25%, vol/vol) rapidly diminished the bovine neutrophil chemiluminescence response to opsonized zymosan. This inhibition was neither prevented nor reversed by 75 mM sucrose. Dilute leukotoxin did not directly stimulate neutrophil chemiluminescence nor did it alter the chemiluminescence response of the neutrophils to opsonized zymosan.

In situ and perfused rat livers showed a spontaneous chemiluminescence of 7-12 counts/sec . cm2 (corresponding to 7-12 x 10(3) photons/sec . cm2); chemiluminescence was increased up to 30 times by infusion of exogenous hydroperoxides. The chemiluminescence of the perfused liver was oxygen dependent. Ethyl, t-butyl, and cumene hydroperoxides were almost equally effective in inducing light emissi...

peroxyoxalate system includes an oxalate ester, peroxide and a fluorescer, the energy resulted from the reaction of oxalate ester and peroxide is transferred to fluorescer and cause it to fluorsc. the effect of reactants chemical structure, their concentration, solvent media (polarity and viscosity) and the temperature, on the intensity of the illuminated light with respect to time have been st...

Recently it has been shown that the natural killer (NK)-target cell interaction results in an immediate burst of chemiluminescence. In this paper we investigated to apply chemilumines cence assay for the evaluation of human NK cell activities. Degrees of chemiluminescence were dependent on the concentration of lymphocytes or tar. get cells, but optimal concentrations of lymphocytes and target c...

We develop a new method for the sensitive detection of polynucleotide kinase (PNK) using rolling circle amplification-induced chemiluminescence. This method exhibits high sensitivity with a detection limit of 2.20 × 10(-4) U mL(-1), which is superior to most reported approaches. Moreover, this method can be used to screen both the inhibitors and the activators of PNK, and can be further applied...