Currently adjuvant chemotherapy for glioblastoma patients can prolong survival time relative to patients who receive only surgery and radiotherapy. Despite these improvements and experimental and clinical efforts the prognosis for glioblastoma patients remains poor. At present, interest is focused on individual prognostic factors influencing patient responses to therapy. Photodynamic therapy ma...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the intensity of fluorescent light reflected from cavity wall dentin, after dentin stained by an experimental caries detecting liquid was removed. BACKGROUND DATA The conventional caries detecting liquid tends to penetrate dentin too deeply. On the other hand, DIAGNOdent has gradually gained recognition and established itself as a caries det...

In this study, the fluorogenic efficiency of fluorescamine for spectrofluorimetric analysis of primary amines was investigated. Different mixtures of dichloromethane and other organic solvents were used for evaluation of fluorescence stability and intensity of fluorescamine derivative (Pyrrolinone). Solvents such as acetonitrile (ACN), tetrahydrofuran (THF) and dioxane increase stability an...

Dual pH-dependent fluorescence peaks from a semiconductor quantum dot (QD) and a pH-dependent fluorescent dye can be measured by irradiating with a single wavelength light, and the pH can be estimated from the ratio of the fluorescent intensity of the two peaks. In this work, ratiometric pH sensing was achieved in an aqueous environment by a fluorescent CdSe/ZnS QD appended with a pH-sensitive ...

The paper discussed the preparation of rare earth europium complexes ultraviolet rays (UV) photochromic ink and the influences of factors, such as europium complexes using a rare earth ternary complex of Eu ion with 3-benzoylbenzoic acid and phenathrolinephen [Eu(BA)3Phen] content upon printing ink formula. In the experiment, we utilized fluorescence spectrophotometer to make quantitative deter...

Two sensitive and selective stability-indicating methods were developed for the determination of sertaconazole nitrate (Ser-NO3), in the presence of its acid, alkaline and oxidative degradation products. The first method was based on measuring the fluorescence intensity of the drug at λex/λem = 231 nm/312 nm. The influence of micelle medium on the fluorescence emission was studied. The nonionic...

The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is a cAMP-regulated chloride channel. There is indirect and conflicting evidence about whether CFTR exists in cell membranes as monomers, dimers, or higher order oligomers. We measured fluorescence intensities and photobleaching dynamics of distinct fluorescent spots in cells expressing functional CFTR-green fluorescent protein (GFP...